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Voices Faking left, and speaking up about assault..........................................................4 Street Talk Black Friday and the spirit of giving .............................................................4 The Week in Review Self-inflicted wounds and home alone for the holiday................6 Briefs Panic on campus and the unintended costs of Marsy’s law .................................6 Etc. Welcoming Engen back.............................................................................................7 News Is the gun lobby’s wish the attorney general’s command? ...................................8 News Poaching by the numbers ......................................................................................9 Opinion Ed Butcher says you need a job to vote. Got a problem with that? ...............10 Opinion Fort Missoula and the dangers of domestic detention...................................11 Feature Alleging ill treatment at Warm Springs ............................................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts I’m a Patriot turns a western road trip into a story of sibling tension .................18 Music Hermanas y Hermanas, Kyle Gass Band, Nocturnal Habits................................19 Music Can Snoop Dogg turn back time?.......................................................................20 TV Molly Laich on the importance of Black Mirror ......................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 What’s Good Here Rosemary-roasted chicken legs with sweet potatoes ....................23 Happiest Hour Mighty Mo Oak Smoker at The Dram Shop ........................................25 8 Days a Week Only one of which we spent in a coma ...............................................26 Agenda Missoula Aging Services’ Giving Trees .............................................................34 Mountain High Missoula Movers’ Coffee Walks...........................................................35
Exclusives
News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-8 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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STREET TALK
by Derek Brouwer
Asked Tuesday afternoon at Imagine Nation Brewing What did you do on Black Friday this year? Followup: Missoula Mayor John Engen returned to work this week after completing rehab treatment for alcoholism. What would you give him as a welcome-back gift?
Alex Johnson: I was up in Kalispell with my family, and we walked around the strip mall. We got there around 11 a.m., so there wasn’t really anything left for us. I got some socks for my girlfriend. Party on: Maybe we could buy half a dozen Martinelli’s sparkling apple ciders and celebrate with shrimp cocktails.
Katie O’Connor: I stayed home. Lately I’ve been making gifts—I’m a grad student—or I order stuff online. I try to avoid the big shopping days. Wise counsel: I feel pressure to say something wonderful because I’m in the counseling program. I haven’t taken the addictions course. I don’t know that I would buy him something. I think I would just want to share with him a message of encouragement for his bravery and for taking care of himself. Sean Nevins: I scavenged town for a beer called Bourbon County Brand Stout by Goose Island. It comes out on Black Friday every year. You kind of have to find all the places in town that are selling it and hope you get lucky. I got three bottles of it. Warm embrace: Give him a big hug and a complimentary dinner at whichever restaurant he wants.
Tim Ketron: I went to work, just a normal day. The grandkids are out of town, so I’ll send money. Atta boy: A pat on the back. He beat the demons, he beat everything else.
Flynt Brandborg: I went hunting and got a deer, then replaced my 92-yearold grandpa’s floor at his house. And shopped at Bob Ward’s for socks. Thanksgiving spirit: I’d share some of my deer meats with him.
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Faking left Dan Brooks, I mistook you for a progressive. Blaming the Democratic Party for the election of Donald Trump (“Filling a void,” Nov. 17) excuses the real culprit: the uninformed electorate. Hillary was on the progressive side of every issue: civil rights, religious freedom, climate change, universal health care, income inequality, reproductive rights. The Democratic Party produced the most historically progressive platform ever, thanks in part to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Hillary embraced this platform. You wrote as if extending the policies of the Obama Administration was a bad thing. From day one, Obama was obstructed by Republicans on everything! Who held up his infrastructure bills? Who made it impossible for our own Max Baucus to obtain universal health care through a public option? Which party denies climate change? Rachel Carson wrote in Silent Spring, “Along with the possibility of the extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has become the contamination of man’s total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm— substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends. ... We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end is disaster. The other fork of the road—the one ‘less traveled by’—offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.” Donald Trump won’t “drain the swamp.” He is the swamp. Beth Taylor Wilson Missoula
Speaking up about assault Please bear with me and read to the end. Sexual assault is not a topic I'm thrilled to discuss. I bring it up because it is something that needs to be talked about. I heard a statistic today that 62 percent of Americans get their news from social media. Maybe what I say will positively affect just one person.
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This is not about politics, so please do not twist it into that. The fact is that the future president of the United States has made admitted sexually deviant acts acceptable as good ol' boy antics. The next four years, it is up to the good people of our nation to volunteer our time or to give money if we can afford it, to programs that we feel may be cut
“This is not about politics, so please do not twist it into that. The fact is that the future president of the United States has made admitted sexually deviant acts acceptable as good ol’ boy antics.”
with this new administration. I am going to go back to volunteering for sexual assault survivors. I use the term survivor instead of victim, because I am a survivor of rape, sexual assault, attempted murder and of random stranger violence. I am speaking up because of the recent conversations taking place accusing the women or questioning why they did not speak up sooner. And because of the comparisons of sexual assault to consensual extramarital affairs as being the same thing. No one wants to share stories that elicit emotions ranging from extreme pity to the opposite extreme of condemnation or
blame. The easiest thing to do is to tell no one. I have actually been told not to play the victim, when in fact I am a strong survivor. The men who assaulted me when I was 19 were going to kill me, but I escaped. That was empowering for me. What many people do not realize is that so many survivors of assault suffer the biggest trauma after the actual act. The trauma is the feeling of injustice. The violence is often not recognized as a crime, not to mention the usual failure of the criminal justice system. If either assault had left a larger scar on my face, it would validate the violence. Speaking for myself, I harbor no resentment for the assailants in these crimes. I expect bad people to do bad things. It is the aftermath, when good people do not do the right thing, or do not act the right way. I want to share this because I was listening to a young woman yesterday who was date-raped, and she did not want to tell anyone because she felt she was stupid for putting herself in that position. We need to talk to the girls and women in our lives, and let them know that unwanted physical contact is a crime and should not be tolerated. And we cannot forget about the young boys and young men who do not come forward at even greater rates. There are many issues that we will have to be more proactive on for at least the next four years. (I know that hearing this story also elicits compassion and can be upsetting, but please, please, please… I almost did not write this because I don’t want this to be about me.) We cannot let our society take giant leaps backward. An entire young generation sees that almost half of the electorate gave this man their approval. Pamala Burke Missoula CLARIFICATION: “Not so fast: a handy guide to your next traffic jam” (Nov. 24) reported— based on information provided by the Montana Department of Transportation—that the Madison Street Bridge road improvement project will feature protected bike lanes. In fact, according to contractor Frontier West and as subsequently confirmed by MDT, the new bike lanes on the rehabilitated Madison Street Bridge will be the unprotected sort. Be careful out there.
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Amy Donovan
Wednesday, Nov. 23 University of Montana professor Gary Kerr wins the Margaret Mead Global Citizenship Award for his community service and classroom work. We might add that Kerr is a frequent winner of “Best Professor” in the Indy’s enormously prestigious Best of Missoula poll.
Thursday, Nov. 24 An Indy staffer who didn’t make travel plans spends the entirety of Thanksgiving alone at home with his dog, though he does manage to make himself dinner. Just in case you need help feeling better about how you spent your holiday.
Friday, Nov. 25 A vendor accidentally fires a loaded weapon at a gun show at MetraPark in Billings. Two people are injured, including a young girl.
Saturday, Nov. 26 One can only hope that no player incurred head injuries during the fifth annual Missoula Community Cup hockey tournament at Glacier Ice Rink, which raised funds for Safe Kids Missoula’s concussion education.
Sunday, Nov. 27 A 60-year-old Missoula man is arrested for burglary shortly after 2 a.m. William Douglas Kirby’s alleged crime? Stealing two bottles of Deschutes Obsidian Stout from a Westside homeowner’s fridge.
Monday, Nov. 28 Signup begins at Ear Candy for Rock Lotto V: The Final Countdown. Local musicians (or anyone who can bang a tambourine) are invited to join temporary bands to learn Brian Eno songs before a show at the Palace Lounge in February.
Tuesday, Nov. 29 A man is taken to the hospital around 2:30 p.m. for a gunshot wound incurred while he was alone in a bathroom on the 1100 block of West Broadway—the same block as the Poverello Center. Missoula police say the wound is likely self-inflicted.
Bucket drummers with glow-in-the-dark sticks perform Eugene Novotney’s “Alone or Together” as part of the University of Montana’s Percussion Ensemble fall concert on Tue., Nov. 29, at the Dennison Theatre.
Timber chronicles
Westside project barrels ahead Nearly five months have passed since the twin forces of wildfire and litigation began to converge on a controversial timber project on the Bitterroot National Forest. Plans to hand-thin tracts west of Hamilton this fall were rendered moot by the Roaring Lion blaze, and forest supervisor Julie King says if it weren’t for an active lawsuit, commercial logging components would likely already have gone out to bid. Despite these hurdles, King insists the Westside Collaborative Vegetation Management Project is moving forward. “We didn’t let up working on it at all,” she says. That continued momentum has been greeted harshly by adjacent landowners concerned about the impacts commercial logging may have on residential roads and recreation along the Coyote Coulee Trail. Landowner Michele Dieterich reiterated her disappointment in a Nov. 19 email to King, Gov. Steve Bullock and numerous U.S. Forest Service personnel, adding that the opportunity to
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collaborate more fully with locals hasn’t necessarily expired. King’s response explicitly stated that the project would remain unchanged save for the removal of units in the northern project area burned by the Roaring Lion fire. One unit is now under review for a separate timber salvage operation this winter. The rest are noncommercial units originally proposed for thinning by the citizen-run Bitterroot Restoration Committee. “Mother Nature took care of that thinning, pretty much,” King says, “but the commercial units [to the south] are still intact and still need treatment.” Project proponents have repeatedly dismissed as bogus accusations that Bitterroot officials failed to adequately collaborate with neighboring residents during the review process. However, in her email, Dieterich contends that the Forest Service admitted its shortcomings during a fall meeting of the Western Governors’ Association. Video from the meeting shows West Fork District Ranger Ryan Domsalla calling the Westside project an overall success, but adding that, in light of the current lawsuit, “we can do better.”
“I think the expedited nature of the project … definitely curtailed the time that we had to do some collaboration with some adjacent landowners as well as some of our stakeholders and user groups,” Domsalla said. “It didn’t allow us a lot of time to establish that trust, that communication, that was necessary for truly honest and open collaboration.” According to King, the Forest Service is currently negotiating toward a settlement in the lawsuit filed by landowner Fred Rohrbach. The dispute’s core issue is access, she says. Rohrbach’s primary complaint is against a planned bridge and permanent road for commercial logging near Camas Creek. Even without a settlement, King adds, the Bitterroot could still put out a timber contract as long as it addresses the pending legal proceedings. “It’s just [that] it might not be as ideal or as attractive to some purchasers,” she says. “The lawsuit is all about the access, so it’s kind of a critical piece when you start talking about hauling timber and whatnot.” Alex Sakariassen
[news] Dept. of unintended consequences
Marsy’s Law means money A new voter-approved constitutional amendment means that businesses—say, Walmart—can now be considered crime victims, and so must be notified of each and every court proceeding involving, say, a misdemeanor shoplifting case. That’s how Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent interprets CI-116, also known as Marsy’s Law for Montana. Prior to passage, the Marsy’s Law campaign claimed that any costs associated with implementing the amendment would be minimal. Campaign Director Chuck Denowh said there would be no need for prosecutors to hire additional staff. But as Nugent reads the law, every city and county attorney’s office in the state will be required to identify and notify the victims of thousands of misdemeanor cases each year, in addition to their existing responsibility to victims of felony and violent offenses. He’s unsure how many additional city staffers might be needed to comply. “Ironically, this is going to create delays in the system with respect to things we were getting processed routinely,� Nugent says. Nugent doubts that Walmart will want to be involved in the details of individual shoplifting cases unless there’s restitution involved. He’s hopeful that the state will allow such victims to sign a waiver opting out of the new law’s notifications. Missoula County is a step ahead of the city. On Nov. 23, the Board of County Commissioners approved a $65,000 budget amendment to bring on two new county attorney staffers by January. Chief Deputy County Attorney Jason Marks says that the annual expense of misdemeanor notifications will top $100,000 going forward. “In my mind, it was something folks drafting the amendment didn’t take into consideration,� Marks says. “I think it’s certainly a good thing to have victims involved, it just comes with financial costs.� Nugent says most attorneys didn’t broadcast their concerns about Marsy’s Law prior to the election due to restrictions on public officials lobbying on ballot issues. He thinks voters weren’t fully aware of the implications of the ballot initiative, which was entirely funded by a California billionaire. “It’s really difficult to stop something like this. It’s like being against motherhood and apple pie type stuff,� Nugent says. Kate Whittle
BY THE NUMBERS
Threat? What threat?
Panic attack at UM Just before Thanksgiving break at the University of Montana, comments by state officials published in the Missoulian sent faculty into a frenzy. Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian and his deputy commissioner for communications, Kevin McRae, told the newspaper they “expected and hoped� UM would continue reducing staff, lest the state have to intervene itself. Was this deja vu, just as the downsizing announced last November cast a cloud of anxiety over that year’s holiday season? Many professors contacted their union leadership, but University Faculty Association President Paul Haber says he didn’t have much reassurance to give. Doug Coffin, a professor of molecular genetics and outspoken critic of the administration, fired off an email to the Montana University System Board of Regents. “The Board and Commissioner should beware that making vague public announcements about job cuts, without these specifics, has a devastating affect on morale at the UM campus,� he wrote. “Will our faculty and staff be left to wonder who will have a job for the holidays, and months thereafter?� The ensuing panic surprised McRae, who says he didn’t think his comments would be controversial. “I don’t believe that the message is inconsistent with what the university would contend,� he told the Indy the morning the Missoulian article was published. Where campus officials have preferred to speak obliquely about the necessity of reducing staff, McRae was more blunt about UM’s tenuous budget situation. “If you can’t tell us how� to prioritize spending, he told the paper, “the day will come where you’re going to have to be told how.� That tone, combined with Christian’s reluctance to comment on President Royce Engstrom’s job performance, suggested the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education was cracking down on UM as a
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difficult legislative session approaches. But as soon as the comments were published, OCHE sought to walk them back. McRae told the Indy that UM is “moving in the right way, and it is moving quickly enough� and commended the “strong team� and “strong plan� currently in place. Christian issued an open letter clarifying that his office isn’t mandating any job cuts. Engstrom addressed the matter in his Thanksgiving email to campus, saying the “implication that jobs are threatened in some immediate sense is simply wrong.� Rather, Vice President for Administration and Finance Mike Reid says, UM is looking to realign its student-to-faculty ratio to 18:1 over the next several years (it’s currently closer to 16:1). Reid says the university’s plan is to reach the 18:1 goal by reducing staff through attrition, not layoffs. Reid couldn’t say how many positions will have to be eliminated to do so, but an Indy calculation using state data suggests that the number is close to 50, or 8 percent of current faculty— assuming the current enrollment and funding pictures don’t change. However, Reid says that enrollment and state funding are in flux, which makes it impossible to predict how many cuts will be necessary in the coming years. Meanwhile, the faculty association’s Haber says the latest confusion reflects the opacity that has come to characterize most budgetary decisions by campus administrators. “The faculty want to know what’s going on, and why,� he says. “I should be able to explain that to them.� Derek Brouwer
ETC. The old adage holds that Americans prefer to vote for the candidate they’d most like to have a beer with. Here in Montana, we’re often granted that opportunity. We’re accustomed to seeing our politicians sipping wine at the next table or tossing back shots of Jameson at the bar. But in a state where drinking is an ingrained part of the culture, it can be hard to delineate between a party-hearty politician relating to his constituents and someone struggling with a real problem. On Nov. 28, Missoula officially learned that Mayor John Engen, by his own assessment, had crossed that line. Engen acknowledged in a press release that he recently completed a 28-day inpatient rehab program. “I’ve learned that I can’t drink safely,� he wrote. He went on to assure the city that “I am confident I can live a healthy, productive, sober life, as millions of other alcoholics do on a daily basis.� Engen’s open letter was penned after a monthlong absence from city hall, the circumstances of which were carefully managed—one might fairly say obscured—by city staff. We can hardly applaud the tendency to secrecy, which hasn’t exactly been a rarity in Engen’s administration, but we can still be proud of the mayor for owning up to a problem. And we can applaud the understanding of a community that has so far received Engen’s news in a spirit of concern and generosity. Engen’s drinking habits were far from a mystery. At least one Indy staffer has stood in line behind an obviously intoxicated Engen, and stories of the overindulged mayor out on the town aren’t hard to find. And yet local media—the Indy included—has looked the other way. Which says something about our respect for Engen’s privacy, our discomfort with wagging a hypocritical finger and, just perhaps, the community’s complicity in enabling the mayor’s self-destructive behavior. As uncomfortable as that suggestion is, awkward questions remain. Did the mayor’s drinking problem affect city business? Was there a precipitating event—as is so often the case with substance abuse—that convinced the mayor of the need to seek help? City officials say Engen won’t discuss the matter further. In his letter, Engen thanked friends for intervening and encouraging him to seek help. He emphasized that he intends to be a “serious, sober� mayor as he prepares to run for re-election in 2017. For another mayor, in another town, a story like this might spell the end of a political career. For Engen, a popular mayor in an empathetic community, it probably won’t. Missoula, like any friend, owes it to Engen to support his recovery. We also owe it to him— and to ourselves—to hold him to the standards he’s pledged.
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Loaded question Who’s calling the shots on Missoula’s gun ordinance? by Derek Brouwer
A little more than a year ago, with the ment, adding that his recollection was Nugent says Fox never explained why Missoula City Council about to hold its first “fuzzy.” DOJ spokesman Eric Sell denied in he apparently disagreed. Asked why the depublic hearing on a proposal to expand an email to the Indy that the AG’s action partment agreed to issue an opinion debackground checks for gun purchases, the was taken in response to Marbut’s request, spite the likelihood of litigation, Sell skirts state’s top cop delivered a clear message to but did not elaborate on what had precip- the question, saying only that the DOJ has local officials: Back off. In a one-sentence itated it. asked the city attorney to notify the departRegardless, Fox’s public posturing a ment if litigation is initiated. press release, Attorney General Tim Fox wrote that “contrary to the opinion of the year ago would have been a small favor But the released emails point to a reaCity Attorney, whom I respect,” he believed compared to the gift he may soon deliver son. Marbut, in the same Oct. 13, 2015 the ordinance would violate state law. The to Marbut and other gun rights advocates. message, wrote that his “alternative” to Fox state’s decision to offer its apparently taking action would be for the MSSA to unsolicited two cents perplexed Misfile a lawsuit. “However, that will cost a soula City Attorney Jim Nugent. “They bunch of money that MSSA can scarcely issued it without even touching base afford,” he wrote. A month later, Marbut with our office,” he recalls. informed Bennion “that AG Fox WILL Emails from Fox’s office, released receive a request for an AG Opinion this month in response to a records reabout the ordinance from Speaker quest by the Indy, show that the attorKnudsen.” Marbut wouldn’t have to sue ney general’s intervention wasn’t if the state intervened—and the state unsolicited after all. In fact, the gun could intervene if Marbut didn’t sue. lobby asked, and two days later the gun “He probably wants to save lobby received. And while Fox’s warning money,” Nugent says now. “If he can shot didn’t deter Missoula’s council get the AG to do his bidding for him, from eventually adopting the ordinance, he’ll have the AG do it so he doesn’t Fox seems poised to continue carrying have to sue.” the gun lobby’s water by quashing the Missoula councilman Bryan von measure with the stroke of a pen. Lossberg, the ordinance’s lead sponsor, photo courtesy of Fox for AG The emails indicate that Gary Marsays the emails make clear that Marbut A year before Missoula approved an but, president of the Montana Shooting has state officials’ ear. “I simply hope ordinance to expand background Sports Association, contacted Fox’s ofthey’re also listening to the gun owners checks on gun purchases, the Monfice on Oct. 13, 2015, asking Deputy At- tana Shooting Sports Association and hunters who wrote in support (of torney General Jon Bennion if “there is was asking Attorney General Tim the ordinance),” he says. “Those voices something that AG Fox can and will do Fox to intervene. He did. Twice. have been talked over and silenced— to help head off this improper ordioften through intimidation—for too nance.” Specifically, he asked if Fox would Shortly after the Missoula ordinance was long. They deserve to be heard.” write a letter on the subject that could be adopted, Culbertson Rep. Austin Knudsen Even as Marbut assured the DOJ that read into the record at an upcoming public used his position as Speaker of the House Knudsen would be requesting an opinion hearing. Bennion forwarded Marbut’s to request that Fox issue a binding legal from Fox, he also offered a novel legal aremail to Montana Department of Justice opinion to void it. On Oct. 18, Fox ac- gument that could be used in case the atleadership, including Fox, asking how to cepted Knudsen’s request and is currently torney general cared “to begin gathering respond. Whatever conversation ensued preparing an opinion that Sells says should ammo” against the ordinance: that univerwas not included in the email record, but be finalized before year’s end. sal background checks would infringe 48 hours later the DOJ made its first and Attorneys general are not required to upon the rights of 18- to 20-year-old Mononly public statement on the issue. oblige such requests, particularly if con- tanans, since federal background checks Marbut’s MSSA is the state’s most stitutional questions are at stake or if the only apply to purchasers 21 and older. That prominent gun rights organization and a matter is—or is likely—headed to court same line of reasoning appeared in the major force behind three decades of Mon- anyway, the department’s website states. legal memorandum prepared by Knudsen tana gun legislation. Its political action Citing legal threats by ordinance oppo- 11 months later. Whether it shows up in committee is known for grading candidates nents, Nugent urged Fox not to intervene. Fox’s final analysis, Missoulians will soon according to their gun policy positions. The city was prepared to defend its ordi- find out. Marbut previously told the Indy that he nance in court, Nugent wrote in a Sept. hadn’t asked Fox’s office to issue the state- 28 email. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Poaching by the numbers How often do hunting violations actually get prosecuted? by Alex Sakariassen
On Nov. 1, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks finally closed the book on yet another major poaching investigation in western Montana. The last of nine men connected to the illegal shooting of at least 15 deer and one cow elk since 2013 was sentenced in Flathead County Justice Court, bringing the fines and restitution secured in the case to $16,425. Charges against the group ranged from waste of game to hunting with artificial light. According to an agency announcement, most of the poachers were high school students, and they lost a combined 47 years of hunting, fishing and trapping privileges as punishment. In the same announcement, FWP Warden Captain Lee Anderson said he hoped the conclusion of the two-year investigation would help deter would-be scofflaws. But the 2016 hunting season has already provided fish and game wardens statewide with new cases to solve. Three mule deer were shot and left unharvested near Skalkaho Road east of Hamilton in the first weeks of November. A bull moose was wasted northwest of Superior in early October. The head and hindquarters were taken from a poached moose on Crane Mountain near Bigfork several weeks later. Ron Jendro, FWP’s assistant chief of enforcement in Helena, thinks it’s unlikely that the wasted carcasses discovered this season will lead to investigations as intense as the one concluded in the Flathead last month. Poaching-wise, he says, 2016 is shaping up to be “pretty similar” to years past. Each of the agency’s seven regions typically winds up with one major case—involving clear intent to break the law—annually. “Every year, I suppose, we’re getting some of those big cases where we’re taking down multiple individuals or they’re killing multiple animals or they’re hunting without landowner permission,” Jendro adds. “I know this fall here in Helena they had a guy that was on suspension and an individual watched him shoot an elk.” Whether this year’s major cases will lead to prosecution is a foggier question.
FWP doesn’t track statistics on how often its investigations result in convictions, or how often such cases are dismissed. But this fall the agency did supply the Indy with 10 years worth of fish and game citation records, and we crunched the data ourselves as the hunting season wound to a close. Of the 4,479 tickets issued by FWP personnel in Missoula County over the past
convictions, Jendro points out that some dismissals are bundled with plea bargains that include payment of fines and surrender of hunting and fishing privileges. Other times, he says, county prosecutors may simply be too overwhelmed with other work to tackle the “big binders” of evidence that wardens drop on their desks. Even when cases are prosecuted,
photo courtesy of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
This poached deer was part of a two-year investigation by state and federal wardens in the Flathead Valley. The last poacher was sentenced on Nov. 1.
decade—tickets that included fishing, boating, trapping and recreation violations— 797 were designated as hunting violations. Just 4 percent of those were dismissed in court, well below the 11 percent dismissal average statewide. Flathead County, where 732 of the 3,743 citations written over the same time period were for hunting violations, had the region’s highest dismissal rate at 39.7 percent. Lake County was second: Of 840 citations, 167 were for hunting, and 28.4 percent of those were dismissed. Other dismissal rates in regions 1 and 2 (comprising western Montana) ranged from 6 to 11 percent. Though the figures seem to indicate pockets of western Montana where hunting violations are less likely to result in
the outcomes aren’t always as headlinegrabbing as the recent Flathead sentencing, or the lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping ban handed down by a district court judge in Ravalli County last year as part of a massive bear-poaching investigation. But then, after 23 years with FWP, Jendro is reluctant to condemn every lawbreaker equally. “We understand when guys make a mistake. Mistakes happen, whether it’s shooting a spike [buck] or whatever,” he says. “But to then compound that mistake by failing to turn themselves in and just letting the game go to waste, that’s what frustrates me.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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[10] Missoula Independent • December 1–December 8, 2016
Late last month, in keeping with its policy of publishing only those opinions submitted in writing, the Missoulian ran a guest column by former Montana legislator Ed Butcher. In it, Butcher complained that the thousands of demonstrators protesting the election of Donald Trump were “obviously not working for a living.” “These are primarily ‘welfare bums,’” he wrote, “college students (is that redundant?) and ‘refugees’ receiving average annual benefits of $29,000 each from American workers so they can sit around or destroy private property protesting the hands that feed them.” Let us begin by commending Butcher on his research, which allowed him to determine not only the demographic makeup but per-capita incomes of marchers in protests across the country, presumably just by watching them on TV. That right there is the trained eye of the historian. As a lecturer in American studies at the University of Great Falls between 1974 and 1979—and, in the late 1960s, as an assistant professor at the confusingly named Valley City State University in North Dakota— Butcher is uniquely qualified to identify slackers from afar. Like many retired landowners, he has a keen sense of who isn’t working. But I am not here merely to praise his bum sense. I also want to offer my fullthroated support for his proposal to revitalize American democracy. It will presumably catch on in Singapore and the Philippines, too, but I quote it here in the original English: “As a historian, I would pinpoint the origin of the decline of our Founding Fathers’ ‘republic’ to allowing those without a means of financial support to vote. To return stability to the election and governing process, states need to require anyone registering to vote to demonstrate some level of employment. Only those supporting the government should be allowed to select our representatives to govern.” Butcher has two great ideas going here. One is to use quotation marks for decoration. The other is to limit the franchise to people who have jobs and can prove it. By adopting
both, I believe we can make this country “great” again. I know what you’re thinking: What about the Fifteenth Amendment? It is true that, to the person without formal training as a historian, the constitution might appear to guarantee voting rights to all adult citizens. But a closer look at the Fifteenth Amendment
“Butcher has two great ideas going here. One is to use quotation marks for decoration. The other is to limit the franchise to people who have jobs and can prove it. By adopting both, I believe we can make this country ‘great’ again.” finds that the right to vote shall not be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The key word here is previous. The constitution says nothing about present conditions of servitude, e.g., line cook at Arby’s. As Butcher wisely discerns, we can use this loophole to strip the vote from college students and welfare recipients, thereby causing them to stop protesting in the streets. Restricting the vote to people who are gainfully employed wouldn’t just usher in a new era of civic tranquility, though. It would
also right the ship of state. Butcher points out that America’s decline began when states started to extend the franchise to men without property, during the 1820s. After four decades of prosperity, the United States began the slow descent into chaos that would characterize the next 200 years. The problem was that people who didn’t own land had no reason to want the country to succeed. They would vote for things like war with Mexico or The Gilded Age just to see what would happen. Perhaps the worst example of such recklessness was the Panama Canal, in which thousands of unemployed college students voted to dig a trench clear across Central America as a prank. The problem has only gotten worse today. For example, 29 percent of American mothers are not employed outside the home. They therefore have no interest in the future of this country and vote for whatever candidate they think will make TV more interesting, with disastrous results. Similarly, 57 million Americans receive Social Security benefits instead of working and also vote for whomever they recognize from TV. Then they exacerbate the situation with inane letters to the editor. The Butcher Plan would encourage these people to shut up. Once only Americans with jobs are allowed to vote, the country will stop spending money on piein-the-sky ideas like education and jobs. Democratic power will again be concentrated where it belongs: in the hands of employed men who cannot believe how lazy everyone else is and aren’t afraid to bring it up, regularly and at length. Will this solve every problem facing the United States today? Yes. Will it create a permanent underclass of desperate people whose only recourse lies outside the law and democratic systems? You betcha. But they’re too busy drinking beer and having sex on the internet to do anything. Take it from a retired history professor and a newspaper columnist: Hard work will set you free. Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and the laziness of others at combatblog.net.
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Homeland hysteria The lessons we learned from ‘alien’ detention at Fort Missoula by Carol Van Valkenburg
Donald Trump said during his presidential campaign that he wants both surveillance of Muslims residing in the United States and a registry to track who and where they are. And he definitely doesn’t want any more Muslims let into this country. I think. As with myriad other statements Trump makes, he obfuscates, contradicts himself, blames others and veers off in so many directions it’s impossible to pin him down unless he’s repeating one of his many “we’re gonna build a wall, folks” declarations. Whatever he means, or doesn’t, he’s emboldening both the blatant racists and the covert ones. The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, cited the internment of more than 110,000 Japanese in America as precedent for banning Syrian refugees from the United States, saying the threats to national security were similar in both cases, making both actions clearly justified. Missoula was the first city in the nation to directly experience the fallout from similar hysteria 75 years ago. On Dec. 19, 1941, the first trainload of Japanese living in the states arrived at the railroad siding near the Buckhouse Bridge. Guarded by agents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 364 “enemy alien” Japanese were marched to Fort Missoula for indeterminate detention. Over the next several weeks more West Coast Japanese arrived, until their numbers at the fort reached about 1,000. None knew why they had been arrested or what fate held for them or for the families they left behind. Who were these men? All were Japanese nationals, and most had lived in the United States for decades. They were not American citizens because laws in this country banned them from citizenship. All Japanese emigration to the states had been banned by 1924, so most had a fairly lengthy history here. Their average age was 60. Why were they detained? The answer is that fear, prejudice and paranoia had smoldered in the body politic for decades until being fully ignited by the attack at Pearl Harbor. The government for years had conducted covert surveillance of the Japanese living in America, placing them in A-B-C categories, with “A” ostensibly being the most
dangerous. The “known dangerous” men on the list were so categorized primarily because they were the most successful, and consequently the most influential, members of the Japanese community in America. If there was to be sabotage here, the most revered would be those with the ability to exert the most influence over others.
“On Dec. 19, 1941, the first trainload of Japanese living in the states arrived at the railroad siding near the Buckhouse Bridge. None knew why they had been arrested or what fate held for them or the families they left behind.” The Justice Department undertook hearings for the men at Fort Missoula. Prominent men from the cities where the arrested Japanese had lived volunteered to sit in judgment at the proceedings at the fort. But the hearings were time-consuming and the board members too few, so prominent Missoulians like Mike Mansfield, then a university history professor, and C.W. Leaphardt, dean of the law school, were called to serve. The board members’ job was to determine whether individual Japanese were “likely to be disloyal.”
Before the Alien Enemy Hearing Board’s work was done, hysteria again changed the course of history. President Franklin Roosevelt was persuaded to issue an executive order that led to the relocation and detention of 110,000 Japanese from the West Coast, one that also let Roosevelt avoid direct responsibility for their fate. He placed the decision in the hands of military leaders, empowering them to decide whether “military necessity” required the evacuation of all Japanese from California and parts of Washington and Oregon. The government created the War Relocation Authority, which opened 10 ramshackle camps in remote locations to house the people forced from their homes. It is a sordid history, made the more appalling by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that affirmed the constitutionality of the action. It’s a decision that has not been overturned. The Fort Missoula detainees were soon shipped to other Army and Justice Department camps. Hundreds were detained, always without explanation or justification, until months after the end of World War II. Most left the camps broken men, never to return to the homes and businesses they’d lost years before. The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, created by Congress in 1980, studied the internment extensively and concluded that it was a "grave injustice" motivated by "racial prejudice, war hysteria and the failure of political leadership." Congress passed, and President Ronald Reagan signed, a bill that awarded $20,000 and a formal apology to each living internee. Many thousands had died by the time the bill was funded, but its cost came to $1.4 billion. Perhaps Donald Trump won’t be swayed by reason from violating the civil liberties of those whose nationality or religion don’t meet his loyalty test. But he might just plan to set aside the money he says Mexico will pay to build his wall to compensate those whose rights he decides to trample on. Carol Van Valkenburg is a professor emerita at the University of Montana School of Journalism and author of An Alien Place, The Fort Missoula, Montana, Detention Camp: 1941-1944.
missoulanews.com • December 1–December 8, 2016 [11]
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In St. Paul, Minnesota, a 25-year-old woman told police on Nov. 3 that she was involuntarily roughed up several hours after being voluntarily roughed up at Arnellia’s Bar’s weekly “Smack Fest”—in which female patrons competitively slap each other’s faces for three “rounds” under strict house rules. The woman said she spoke amicably with her opponent, but by closing time, the opponent and several friends, including men, punched and kicked her outside the bar. (In other slapping news, a 71-yearold woman died in Lewes, England, in November while participating in a Chinese healing seminar that emphasizes being slapped repeatedly to rid the body of poisoned blood and toxins. The “healer,” Hongshi Xiao, charges clients around $900 to beat what he calls the “sha” out of them.) Episode Almost Ended in a Tie: In November, in a remote area of Oregon’s Maury Mountains, a 69year-old man killed an elk and dragged the carcass behind his off-road vehicle up a hill. According to the Crook County Sheriff’s office, the vehicle suddenly flipped over backward, and the man landed on, and was impaled by, the elk’s antlers. Fellow hunters summoned a helicopter, and the man has apparently survived. THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT – In a retail market long dominated by priests, “nonsectarian” funeral eulogizers now offer to give individually tailored remembrances of the deceased for a fee, according to an October report by a New York Post reporter who interviewed two local “celebrants,” who cited the declining appeal of “prayers.” The British retailer ASOS announced in August that 3-foot-long clip-on dinosaur tails had sold out in one of its two models (although New York magazine, which reported it in the U.S., was, for obvious reasons, baffled about why). THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS – Brittany Maynard, then 29, became “the face of the Right to Die movement” in 2014, according to a New York Post column, when she chose a legal physician-assisted suicide rather than awaiting the growth of her terminal brain tumor. In October, terminally ill California mother Stephanie Packer hoped to be “the face of the Right to Live movement” after revealing that her insurance company denied coverage for a drug that could extend her life—but at the same time disclosed that her suicide drugs are covered, and even disclosed her co-pay ($1.20). MEDICAL MARVELS – Margaret Boemer’s baby LynLee was “born” twice. In an October Texas Children’s Hospital interview, doctors described how the need to rid Boemer’s fetus of a rapidly growing tumor required them, at Boemer’s 23rd week of pregnancy, to remove the fetus completely from the uterus until it was “hanging out in the air” so that they could cut away the tumor and then reposition the fetus into the uterus. LynLee was “born” again by C-section 13 weeks later. SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED – San Francisco State University researchers revealed in April that no fungi or fecal bacteria were found on the seats of the city’s bus line or rapid transit trains (unlike their findings in 2011 before officials adopted easier-to-clean seats), but that a “rare” and “unusual” strain, called Pigmentiphaga was found—previously associated only with South Korean wastewater and the South China Sea. The city’s Department of Health said, of course, not to worry.
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[12] Missoula Independent • December 1–December 8, 2016
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Ill treatment Patients—and a watchdog group’s lawsuit—say inmates in Montana’s mental health facilities are subject to inhumane treatment story and photos by Kate Whittle
The fire sprinkler burst, showering rust-colored water all over the cell. Ryan Bragg had “popped it,” in his words, out of frustration that the sink had been shut off in his room at the Galen Forensic Mental Health Facility. Bragg, 21, is confined there in lieu of serving prison time for an accomplice-to-burglary charge. He is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, PTSD and ADHD. He says the water in his room was shut off as punishment for earlier misbehavior. After asking for weeks that it be turned back on, he had decided to draw attention to the issue by whacking the sprinkler with a hairbrush. On that day in mid-June, as spraying water soaked his clothes, nurses and other staffers arrived outside his room and shouted through the door. Would he voluntarily walk as they escorted him out, or would they have to carry him?
“I kept saying, ‘I’ll walk, I’ll walk,’” Bragg remembers. His lawyer, Helena-based Bridgitt Erickson, says the entire event is recorded on security footage, which she’s petitioning to have released to the public. Erickson says the video clearly shows a nurse pushing her way through several staffers and declaring that Bragg won’t be allowed to walk. What followed was one of the most humiliating incidents Bragg can recall in more than a decade of moving from institution to institution. He says staffers removed most of his clothes, wrapped his torso in a restraint blanket—a sort of sleeveless straightjacket—and strapped him to a gurney. He says he struggled to break free before an aide used a Black and Decker power drill to secure the straps. A nurse instructed staffers to cut off his wet underwear, saying it might have been soaked in flameretardant chemicals from the sprinkler. Later he was assigned to an iso-
[14] Missoula Independent • December 1–December 8, 2016
lation unit where, at dinner time, staffers set a tray of food on his lap and allowed him to sit up, but failed to loosen his wrist restraints. Erickson says video footage shows Bragg struggling to crane his neck far enough forward to reach the tray. “It’s inhumane,” she says. Moreover, Erickson says, Bragg’s case isn’t unique. Bragg is one of four patients represented by Disability Rights Montana—a federally funded nonprofit charged with watchdogging state institutions—in a lawsuit that seeks to ban many current restrictions on patient freedoms at the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs and the forensic facility at Galen. Disability Rights Montana, for whom Erickson works as a staff attorney, asserts that Montana State Hospital staff have relied on retaliation and isolation instead of compassionate treatment when it comes to patients with severe mental illness.
ııı The Montana State Hospital facilities in Galen and Warm Springs are among the few landmarks in the otherwise quiet ranching communities nestled along Interstate 90 south of Deer Lodge. Trees shield the stately brick buildings of the 216-bed Montana State Hospital psychiatric facility in Warm Springs. This is where Erickson and other advocates with Disability Rights Montana arrive on a late September afternoon to meet with patients. Since filing the suit in August, Erickson has noted that it often takes longer to gain entry to see her clients. With a reporter present, she and other advocates waited for more than an hour to see the clients they visit every week. One of the hospital staffers, a social worker, notices the reporter and reappears with her nametag flipped backward. After finally gaining approval to maintain possession of their cell phones and purses and to deliver small gifts to their clients, Erickson and fellow Disability Rights Montana advocates Charles McCarthy and Janice Sanderson file into the small visiting room outside the D wing, one of five wards in the main hospital facility. After another few minutes of waiting, a different social worker employed by the hospital brings in 27-year-old Tyler Sapp, one of the patients in the lawsuit. Erickson smiles and asks Tyler if he wants a hug. He’s shy and wide-eyed. It’s not often that he interacts with people, because for most of the past four years, Tyler has spent his days alone, locked behind a steel door in a bare cell. His lawyer and his family are barred from seeing where he lives, ostensibly out of respect for the privacy of other patients. The lawsuit alleges that he only gets to interact with staff through a small porthole when his food and medication are delivered. “So I don’t get out very much,” Tyler says, explaining his daily routine. He says the recreation staffers take him outside twice a week for a couple of hours at a time. He gets out more often when his doctor, New Mexico-based Joseph Frechen, visits the hospital on a six-week rotation. Frechen, who arrives in the middle of the conversation, says he tries to take Tyler out for supervised walks whenever he’s present. By all accounts Tyler needs continual supervision. He remembers being diagnosed with obsessivecompulsive disorder at age 14, and with paranoid schizophrenia at age 17. His delusions often lead to extreme attempts at self-harm or lashing out at others. He recalls being committed to Warm Springs after an incident four years ago, when he poured bleach on himself to try to “cleanse” his “spirit.” “I got third-degree burns in my groin area. My dad found me when he got home from work,” he says. Tyler’s father, Jonathan Sapp, lives in Billings. In a phone interview, Jonathan says he remembers Tyler being a “pretty normal” kid who played baseball and went fishing. Tyler’s odd behavior started sometime around middle school, just as Jonathan and Tyler’s mother were going through a divorce. Tyler began to compulsively wash his hands or turn the lights on and off a certain number of times. For a long time,
Jonathan chalked up the behaviors to Tyler acting out because of the divorce. Eventually, Tyler’s parents took him to see a psychiatrist. “The doctor told me he was mentally ill, and I struggled with that,” Jonathan says. “I didn’t know what to do, with my ignorance of mental illness … I was coming to grips.” Jonathan says he communicates regularly with Warm Springs doctors about Tyler’s care. Not long after Tyler was committed in May 2012, doctors started to tell him that Tyler’s behavior was so erratic and dangerous that he needed to be in isolation,
fails to provide a sufficient number of staff. The Galen forensic facility was opened in February of this year to ease overcrowding. Hospital officials note that as of Nov. 16, Warm Springs’ patient census is 22 under the facility’s maximum capacity, with 194 patients and 419 full-time staff. Jonathan emphasizes that he wants to trust that doctors are doing their best, but he does want to see an end to long-term isolation. A wealth of research shows that solitary confinement alters the brain and damages mental health. A 2014 study in the American Journal of Public Health looked at jail inmates punished with solitary confine-
and another plaintiff, Faith Swanson, removed from isolation during the course of the lawsuit. In a September hearing, the Department of Public Health and Human Services argued that the plaintiffs should be kept isolated for their own and others’ safety. So far, presiding judge Kathy Seeley has sided with DPHHS. Even so, Jonathan and Tyler both say they’ve observed a big difference in Tyler’s care just since the lawsuit was filed. In September, hospital staff began letting Tyler use a Kindle e-reader for a few hours at a time. Tyler lights up when he explains that he loves to read about Civil War battles and Norse mythology. Later, in the visiting room, Tyler asks his doctor if the reporter can see his isolation unit. “Can she see it? Can she see my room?” he says excitedly. Dr. Frechen throws his hands up. “It’s not up to me,” he says.
“Several observers have likened this battle to David against Goliath. I disagree: David had the whole Israeli army backing him. I have no ııı backup at all. If David misses his shot, these Other Montana State Hospital patients alpatients are lost. There is no army standing by.” lege in the suit that they’re needlessly punished Jonathan says. It doesn’t help, he adds, that Tyler is good at “cheeking” meds to avoid taking them. At least three different doctors have treated Tyler during his time at Warm Springs. “So then they started telling me that they were short-staffed so they had to, you know, keep him locked up more because they didn’t have enough people to keep an eye on him,” Jonathan says. Overcrowding and understaffing has been an ongoing issue at Warm Springs. The D wing of the hospital is licensed for 32 patients, but often housed 50, according to news reports from 2015. Disability Rights Montana’s suit says Montana State Hospital
ment—in many of the same conditions found in Montana facilities—and found that they were nearly seven times more likely than general population inmates to commit acts of self-harm, including suicide. Tyler himself says he feels depressed and just wants to sleep most of the time, since he can’t do anything else. “My son deserves treatment. He doesn’t deserve just a punishment or ‘lock away and maintain,’” Jonathan says. “You and I being locked up a month at a time, it wouldn’t be conducive to our mental health.” Disability Rights Montana seeks to have Tyler
at Warm Springs. Among them is Charles White, who was first placed in Warm Springs in 2008. He likes to describe himself as the “O.G.” of his ward. White is a tall, broad-shouldered 30-year-old with a beard and long chestnut hair that he keeps combed back. As a lucid and stable patient, he says he wants to stick up for others who might be more vulnerable. “We’re not allowed to bring up staff issues,” he says. “It’s a joke if you’re trying to get something resolved.” White says he remains in Warm Springs because he routinely finds himself in trouble for various infractions. In March 2016, he was sent to the forensic facility in Galen.
Patients at the Galen Forensic Mental Health Facility can access the outdoors only while supervised in high-security courtyards. Disability Rights Montana alleges that the facility, a former youth prison, doesn’t provide adequate treatment services.
missoulanews.com • December 1–December 8, 2016 [15]
“Galen sucks,” White says bluntly. Patients there have fewer freedoms and the lights in the rooms remain on throughout the night. In fact, Erickson argues that the Galen facility— a former juvenile detention center with barbed-wire courtyards—doesn’t qualify as a mental health facility at all. State law requires mental health centers to provide extensive services, including crisis phone lines, medication management, chemical dependency treatment and outpatient therapy. She asserts that Galen provides none of these. Most important to Erickson, there’s a crucial legal distinction between Warm Springs—where civilly committed patients go—and Galen, which houses people who’ve been convicted of crimes. A judge in 2010 found White not guilty of a 2008 double murder due to his mental illness. Erickson believes that a history of family abuse combined with untreated schizophrenia prompted his actions. Nevertheless, the suit notes, “The difference between ‘guilty’ and ‘not guilty’ cannot be overstated: It is a distinction of constitutional proportions.” Today, White thinks that medication is keeping his delusions under control. He says he misses skiing and rock climbing. If psychiatrists deem him to be fit for release, he’ll be eligible to return to the community. State law requires that mental patients be held in the least restrictive setting possible and be released once they meet certain criteria, including a judgment that they pose no harm to themselves or others. Forensic patients’ duration of commitment is determined by a court. White was moved back to Warm Springs after three months at Galen and later filed a grievance about the transfer to Galen. Shortly after his return, he was volunteering for the morning coffee service in June. One patient arrived after the deadline to order coffee, but he gave her a cup anyway. Staff discovered the subterfuge when they found his handwriting on the patient’s styrofoam cup. “I didn’t think they’d go all Magnum P.I. on me,” he says. White believes many of the problems at Warm Springs stem from a lack of training and education for staff. “People that are working need to be reschooled,” White says. Disability Rights Montana’s suit seeks to implement additional training for Montana State Hospital staff in avoiding patient restraint, punishment and isolation. White also questions why hospital staff aren’t required to undergo psychological evaluations before they’re hired. (In other stressful professions, such as police work, employees are often required to undergo psychological evaluations.) DPHHS confirms that hospital staff aren’t required to undergo psychological evaluations before employment, though they can be referred to on-site counseling and resources during the course of their work. “Currently, we have 33 staff trained at MSH in Group Crisis Intervention Training,” says DPHHS spokesman Jon Ebelt in a written statement. “This group is trained in a wide range of crisis intervention in regard to post incident crisis, which may include crisis intervention education, stress management, group debriefings and defusing and individual follow up for staff.” DPHHS doesn’t allow specific people named in
the Disability Rights Montana lawsuit—DPHHS Director Richard Opper, Branch Manager Mary Dalton, Montana State Hospital Superintendent Glenda Oldenburg, psychiatrists Virginia Hill and Liviu Goia, and nurses Eleanor Combs and Jill Buck—to speak publicly, nor will it comment on the current litigation. “Our response to this issue has been and will continue to be presented in court,” Ebelt writes. DPHHS also won’t comment on how much defending the suit might cost the state, although Erickson suggests that it probably won’t be cheap. She says six attorneys are representing the state. “It’s a tragedy in itself that the state is bringing the full force of state resources down against four
“The underpayment of line staff, at Montana state institutions but also in our communities, is a reality,” Kuntz says. “There have been numerous attempts by both the unions or the private healthcare providers to get raises over the years, and there’ve been varying levels of success … I do believe it’s not just an issue at Montana State Hospital, it’s an issue across our system.” A job listing recently posted online shows that a psychiatric aide at Warm Springs who interacts directly with patients every day starts at $12 an hour. The job requires only a background check and a high school diploma.
father says he’s prepared for the case to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, though Erickson doesn’t speculate about that. She’s yet to file for specific damages, but she’s discussing that with the plaintiffs. Bragg has suggested that his experience with the restraint blanket might be worth $50,000 or so. He could certainly use the money. He’ll have no close friends or family waiting for him on his scheduled release in 2019. Bragg grew up in a tumultuous household as the son of meth-addicted parents before ending up in the foster care system as a pre-teen. Erickson visited Bragg at Galen in November, where she told him she was hopeful that Disability Rights could track down
Disability Rights Montana lawyer Bridgitt Erickson says she tried for several months to convince the Montana State Hospital to remove her clients from isolation units before deciding that a lawsuit was the only recourse. “They don’t believe we have the legal authority to help these people,” she says.
mental patients with a solo lawyer,” Erickson writes in an email. “Several observers have likened this battle to David against Goliath. I disagree: David had the whole Israeli army backing him. I have no backup at all. If David misses his shot, these patients are lost. There is no army standing by.” Few of the issues raised in the Disability Rights Montana suit surprise Matt Kuntz, executive director of Helena-based National Alliance on Mental Illness Montana, a nonprofit that likewise advocates for Montanans with mental illness. He gives kudos to Disability Rights Montana for its work, but is also realistic about the challenges faced by public mental health institutions. Besides caring for people with severe addictions and mental disorders, Montana State Hospital is expected to take on forensic patients—those convicted of crimes—as well as dementia patients. “You can’t really look at this without thinking about overcrowding and how institutions are being challenged, both by trying to care for a larger forensic population, and also trying to serve clients with Alzheimer’s and dementia that were never meant to be served at Montana State Hospital,” Kuntz says. He’s also careful to note that the quality of care at public and private facilities is affected when staff is underpaid and undertrained.
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ııı The fourth Montana State Hospital patient named in the suit, a 32-year-old woman named Faith Swanson, hasn’t been allowed by her family to meet with the media. Few details are publicly available about Swanson’s condition, though Erickson describes Swanson as an “avid outdoorsperson” who used to be able to hold down a job and drive a car. Swanson was committed to Warm Springs in 2010. Today, after five years of isolation, her advocates say she’s unable to communicate verbally. On the same September visit when Disability Rights Montana met with Sapp, an advocate brought along a sticker book designed for toddlers for Swanson to play with in the visiting room. The lawsuit notes that Swanson and Tyler Sapp “eat, urinate, defecate, and spent endless hours staring at the blank walls inside their cells that are wholly devoid of environmental stimulation and normal social interaction.”
ııı The suit could take months or years to resolve. A hearing scheduled for Dec. 18 in Lewis and Clark County district court will continue to hash out whether Sapp and Swanson can be released from isolation during the course of the proceedings. Sapp’s
two of his sisters. Asked what made him happy as a kid, he recalled his dad teaching him how to play chess. “And then I beat him, and he got mad and shoved my head into the coffee table,” Bragg says. Such stories of abuse and trauma—and a dearth of family or friends—are all too common to Erickson, who’s spent much of her career advocating for the institutionalized. Even when she worked as a hearings officer for DPHHS, she was unafraid to call out the state agency for what she considered wrongdoing. A 2014 Lee State Bureau article describes how Erickson “slammed” her then-employer for mishandling Medicaid accounts. DPHHS Director Opper is quoted in that article agreeing with Erickson’s assessment. After an afternoon visiting with Bragg, she bids him goodbye and presses a call button. Staffers arrive to escort Bragg to the dinner service. Outside in the parking lot, Erickson pauses before getting into her car. A brilliant sunset highlights the Pintlers in the chilly evening. Cows graze in a field beyond the facility’s barbed wire fence. “These people have no one to fight for them,” she says. “They’re all alone in the world.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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Blind faith I’m a Patriot turns a western road trip into a story about sibling tension
Christopher Magee, left, and Michael Magee star in I’m a Patriot.
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t isn’t obvious where I’m a Patriot gets its title, not even after the final scene cuts to black and the credits roll. The Montana-made film is a personal—not political—story that follows two estranged brothers who reunite after their father’s death. Responsible younger sibling Eddie decides to throw caution to the wind and join his troublemaking older brother, Owen, on a road trip from Montana to Reno. The plot includes a suitcase full of cash and a couple of vengeful characters from their father’s past, but for the most part this is a story about subtle shifts in the brothers’ relationship. Nothing in the film explicitly points to patriotism, save for a scene when the brothers light sparklers and sit on the hood of Owen’s Galaxie 500 to watch Fourth of July fireworks. And yet there are strong themes of allegiance and blind faith that lend themselves to both patriotism and brotherhood. As it turns out, that’s exactly what the filmmakers were going for. “The whole time we were making the movie I was thinking of how your relationship to family is like your relationship to country,” says writer and director Jordan Marvin. “They’re part of you even when they do something really stupid. You can’t get rid of them.”
Still, it’s worth noting that Marvin and director of photography Blake Koemans (both graduates of the University of Montana’s media arts program) conceived of this film almost four years ago, when the current political climate wasn’t yet a discernible twinkle in the country’s collective eye. They disagreed about the movie’s title—Koemans thought it didn’t connect to what actually happens in the film, but in the end they both agreed it might pique people’s interest, and now more than ever. “The title is far from direct,” Marvin says. “But if people think it’s just good timing for how our country is right now, that’s fine, too.” Marvin wrote the script in 2013 and he and Koemans raised more than $21,000 with a 2015 Kickstarter campaign. The film was shot mostly in and around Missoula, but the filmmaking team, including assistant director James Wicks, also hit the road for 12 days to shoot scenes in Reno and Las Vegas and on the Oregon coast. Though some shoots were planned, they often found themselves winging it, arriving at a site unannounced and just going for it. “The road trip was one of the best experiences of my life,” Koemans says. “It was five dudes stuck in a truck together with a
shitty U-Haul trailer towing another car—the Galaxie 500—behind us. We got three hours of sleep per night. It was miserable but it was a lot of fun.” I’m a Patriot features a who’s who of Missoula actors. Real life brothers Christopher and Michael Magee play Owen and Eddie, respectively. The Magees live in the Bay Area now, but at the time of filming they were Missoula residents known for their theater company, The Moonrisers. The group’s final production, an original comedy called Reginald & Ruckus: Werewolf Hunters, showcased the brothers’ chemistry as purveyors of idle banter and existential crisis. There’s a similar dynamic at play between Reginald and Ruckus and Owen and Eddie— in both cases Michael plays the positive, sometimes dopey innocent to Christopher’s sarcastic, wild egoist. (Though the filmmakers claim Michael is the real-life wild child.) The cast also includes theater maven Ann Peacock as the mother, Alexa Prince and Russ Gay as the villains, Patrick Yoder as the unfortunate cousin and the omnipresent Jeff Medley as Uncle John. Ann Rice, formerly of Missoula and now living in Seattle, was flown to Reno to play the part of Owen’s love interest, Claire. Several of these actors have been in local films before, but
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for the most part they’re theater actors, and the I’m a Patriot script lends itself to a theatrical approach. Koemans shot the film in Cinemascope, a technology utilized first in the late 1950s but largely defunct by 1967. It requires a clunky projection lens that doesn’t allow for much mobility, but because the old equipment isn’t in high demand, it’s a cheap way to shoot wide-screen cinema. In I’m a Patriot, it provided a broader frame for the actors to work within, like a stage. That characteristic, along with the subtle dialogue of Marvin’s script, gives I’m a Patriot the feel of a Hal Hartley or Paul Thomas Anderson film. In fact, the Eddie character is a reference to Boogie Nights. “I’m almost afraid to say how influential Paul Thomas Anderson was because you’ll see how hard we tried to rip him off,” Marvin says. “This is my first film and I tried my best to be him.” I’m a Patriot begins with the time tag “some time ago,” which Koemans says “is kind of our version of ‘a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.’” The movie never specifies a particular era. The Galaxie 500 is a 1966 model, and the brothers wear clothing that might look current any time from the 1970s through the 1990s. In the first scene,
Eddie speaks to his brother from a corded phone. There’s no reference to social media or cell phones. “It’s not now,” Marvin says. “It’s sometime besides now.” The soundtrack is equally evasive—and also really cool. John Brownell of beloved former Missoula band Oblio Joes created its high lonesome desert instrumental score. Some surfy garage rock soundtrack tunes come from a new compilation by Lost Sounds Montana called Long Time Coming, which features 1950s- and 60s-era Montana bands such as The Night Raiders and Chan Romero. The title is meant to be timeless, too, though it may carry extra baggage at the moment. “The core of the story for me is Eddie’s journey,” Koemans says. “When you’re at that age you start to realize we are all people, and that everyone kind of sucks. But also that there are redeeming qualities—and that we can admire each other and love each other even though we’re not all great people.” I’m a Patriot screens at the Roxy Fri., Dec. 2–Sun. Dec. 4, at 7 PM and 9 PM nightly. $9.
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Lo-fi feels Hermanas raise the lighters with new EP The Hated’s 1986 demo version of “What Was Behind” is one of my favorite examples of the superiority of lo-fi. The sound is a little muddy, distant, fuzzed-out and worn. Even when it was newly released, the song gave your brain the illusion you were unearthing a secret and forgotten artifact. And more than that, the tattered texture of the music reflects the tone of the lyrics, which reveal a desperate narrator unraveling from some unspecified pain. Hermanas y Hermanas’ new eponymous EP provides the same lo-fi trickery for all the right reasons. Like The Hated, the local band uses weathered riffs to emphasize the weathered feeling of too much heartache and despair. “Empty Vessel” and “We Knew
it When” both seem to be about what happens when two people can’t manage to connect—or won’t. All four catchy emo-punk tunes feature satisfying guitar solos and raise-your-lighter choruses perfect for a live crowd, which isn’t surprising considering that the band includes Alex Key of Total Combined Weight and Keith Moore of Bird’s Mile Home. These guys know how to stir tales of affliction into a stew of drunken chords without losing their edge. (Erika Fredrickson) Hermanas y Hermanas play the VFW Sat., Dec. 3, at 9 PM, along with Bull Market, The Budgets, Raziel and Dirty Jim. $5.
Kyle Gass Band, Thundering Herd You might know Kyle Gass as a clueless kids’ book writer in Elf, or as Jack Black’s guitar-wielding partner in Tenacious D. But his real passion comes forth in Kyle Gass Band’s overwrought goofball rock. On the heavier songs, there’s nary a metal cliché left unturned. “You thought evil was a sandwich,” wails Gass in “Hell or High,” which sounds a lot like Soundgarden circa Superunknown, and “Mamas Mia” thumps like a fist pounding the bar in a seedy dive. KGB plays with confident authority, and their stylistic agility covers a lot of ground. “Bone” has a funky, greasy groove and great soul organ. “Uncle Jazz” is the silky epitome of AOR ear candy with its Stevie Wonder-style harmonica, pearly electric piano and busy bass line.
“Gypsy Scroll II Toot of the Valley” puts KGB right into their sweet spot. It’s D&D fantasy quasi-metal of the Dio ilk, with plenty of harmony guitar lines, power chords and my-codpiece-is-tootight caterwauling over weird time signatures. The fife solo and spoken-word section leave no doubt as to the silliness of the song’s premise. As any Weird Al fan will tell you, if the musicianship ain’t there, the parody won’t sell. The lyrics here aren’t particularly clever or subtle, but fans of Tenacious D should thoroughly enjoy the ride. (Ednor Therriault) Kyle Gass Band plays Monk’s Wed., Dec. 7, at 9 PM. $15/$10 advance.
Nocturnal Habits, New Skin for Old Children In 2013, archival record label The Numero Group began releasing the recordings of Unwound, a cult favorite of the Northwest’s 1990s post-hardcore music scene. The band started out as punk and transitioned into a more experimental sound, still brandishing akimbo guitar riffs but pushing the boundaries of song structure. The reissue was easy to get excited about. Recently, members Justin Trosper and Sara Lund released an album from their current band, Nocturnal Habits, which includes another heavy hitter: Dale Crover of The Melvins. New Skin for Old Children seems like an obvious step for a post-Unwound band to take. There is still an angular foundation to most of the tracks, but it’s
a much warmer, more developed soundscape. Partway through, the album becomes meditative. Instrumentals “Wall of Early Morning Light” and “Sketchbook” are surprisingly mellow in a less-than-fascinating way. Fortunately, New Skin picks back up again during the last couple of tracks, not necessarily in pace so much as in tension. This is not a record that will satiate the most rabid Unwound fan, and maybe that’s because it doesn’t feel as obsessively driven as an Unwound album. Granted, Trosper and Lund have earned the right to explore a new musical galaxy under a new name. With them at the helm, I’m hopeful that Nocturnal Habits will reveal a new level somewhere down the line. (Erika Fredrickson)
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For approximately one year during my ignorant youth, I maintained that Snoop Dogg was the best rapper of all time. This position is indefensible. While you might split hairs and argue he was the best smooth rapper, provided you also built a time machine and killed the infant Slick Rick, there are just too many other greats—rappers who released better albums, took more risks and ultimately did more to change the game. To ignore your Biggies, your Tupacs and your Jays-Z in favor of Snoop is like insisting that Star Wars is the best movie ever. You only reveal the limits of your taste. So let us revise our youthful overstatement and say that Snoop is the best-known rapper of all time. This, too, is conjecture, but it seems plausible. Unlike Pac and Biggie, he lived long enough to release a full catalog—14 studio albums plus numberless guest appearances. Unlike Kanye or MF Doom, his career started when rap was still on MTV, allowing him to reach a generation of casual fans who would not hear hip-hop again unless they sought it out. Heads may scoff, but Snoop remains a top-five rapper among people who cannot consistently remember the other four. His mainstream appeal is undeniable. He has been nominated for 17 Grammys, though he never won. In 1995, for example, he was nominated for “Gin and Juice” but lost to Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.” He was also nominated in 2009 for “Sexual Eruption,” a song that may not get the white girls dancing as reliably as “Gin and Juice” did. Snoop is a peculiar animal in that he is of the same vintage as the golden-age pioneers but kept on recording after they faded away. His landmark work—as a guest on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, followed by his solo albums Dogg ystyle and Tha Dogg father—spans 1992 to 1996. His first No. 1 single, the mildly embarrassing but wildly successful “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” arrived in 2004. He’s
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released seven albums since then, including Coolaid earlier this year. This is just my opinion, but they are not as good as Doggystyle. You might be forgiven, then, for remembering Snoop as an artist from the ’90s. His vaguely clownish demeanor, stern in face and voice but winking in presentation, fits the performance style of that era. Although he was an actual Crips member, he does not pretend to keep it real as insistently as Gucci Mane or even 50 Cent. He is of the generation that made rap safe for mainstream America, appearing in commercials for America Online and on Jimmy Kimmel Live. More than any of his contemporaries, he is a brand, having become to rap in 2016 what Tiny Tim was to folk music in 1986. The journey of the middle-aged rapper runs into uncharted territory. Around the time he signed to Capitol Records and turned 30, Snoop gave up his youthful gangsta image for the more loosely defined “pimp.” But whither the pimp in his 40s? His conversion to Rastafarianism and the stage name Snoop Lion, in 2012, felt like a midlife crisis. We’re all glad he’s since come to his senses, but it’s hardly clear where his career might go from here. When you went platinum rapping with Dr. Dre at age 21, where could you possibly be a quarter-century later? For now, he is on the Puff Puff Pass Tour Part 2 with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony—an act that never approached his commercial success but now seems strangely more influential, at least in southern rap. Someday, Snoop will be rap’s Willie Nelson: stoned, still doing it, hearkening back to an ill-remembered time. Until then, he lives on as a symbol of rap’s nervous middle age, towing a legacy that seemed like it would never get old. Snoop Dogg performs at the Adams Center Tue., Dec. 6, at 8 PM. $62+. arts@missoulanews.com
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TV that matters Through the looking glass with Black Mirror by Molly Laich
In the first episode of season one of Black Mirror, internet pranksters kidnap a princess and con Britain’s prime minister into having sex with a pig on live television. The particulars are a little more complicated, but that’s the gist. Seeing the show for the first time, I couldn’t believe what I’d just witnessed. It felt like the most dynamic and disturbing television the world had ever known. They should have been talking about it on the news—people were grossly underreacting to this astounding piece of TV cinema. Black Mirror is created and primarily written by Charlie Brooker, who was previously famous in the UK for satirical television (think Jon Stewart, but with more edge). The show started on Britain’s Channel 4 and is now produced by Netflix. Episodes run about an hour or longer, each with its own stand-alone storyline, characters and tone. Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone for the digital era, in which technological advances lead to horrifying and nightmarishly plausible social consequences. Season 3 premiered in October with six new episodes (six more are expected for release in 2017). A few of the storylines have ventured to America and taken on a certain Hollywood polish, but the darkness and quality of the storytelling remain uncompromised. In season 3’s first episode, “Nosedive,” Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World) lives in a near-future when social media clout has become literal currency. Imagine if every human was rated on Yelp. In this world, when your rating dips too low you’re made to wait in longer lines, your keys no longer open doors and people shun you in the street. It’s not too far off from how we do things now. The characters in “Nosedive” are shallow and empty on the inside, but the episode has a pastel palette that makes it seem almost cheery compared to some of the season’s bleaker stories.
The show reaches perhaps its darkest point in Episode 3, “Shut Up and Dance,” when internet perverts and adulterers are discovered by an anonymous hack and blackmailed to do horrendous things to keep their secrets. The episode puts viewers in the awkward position of sympathizing with bad people. And if American network programming has you accustomed to being coddled in the final act, you’re in for a healthful shock. Not just effective science fiction entertainment, these are heavy-handed morality tales with pertinent lessons to teach. And though the episodes stand alone, certain technologies make repeat appearances in unexpected ways. Implants that allowed social media users to see a person’s score in “Nosedive” reoccur with a different purpose in Episode 5, “Men Against Fire,” where soldiers’ senses are enhanced and manipulated to achieve violent ends. Finally, Episode 6, “Hated in the Nation,” delivers a poignant lesson about internet bullying and groupthink that everyone with ears and eyes should pay attention to. When people say that we’re living in a “golden era of television” and that TV shows are now better than movies, I mostly don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. All these soap opera melodramas sprawling in vague directions with built-in commercial pauses and actors whose faces looked like forged paintings—who needs them? Black Mirror is the only television show that matters. Nevertheless, resist the urge to binge-watch this show. Marketers want us to be gluttons with our media, as if this is a good and harmless thing. It’s not. A breather between episodes will help you digest. These are fascinating stories told with imagination and guts, and they demand and reward careful attention. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] DOCTOR STRANGE By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth! The director of Hellraiser 5 brings Marvel Comics’ Sorcerer Supreme to the big screen. Rated PG13. Stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tilda Swinton. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Carmike 12.
OPENING THIS WEEK BELIEVE Even with the local economy tanking, one business owner is going to do whatever it takes to make sure the local Christmas pageant still goes off without a hitch. Rated PG. Stars Ryan O’Quinn, Shawnee Smith and Danielle Nicolet. Playing at the Carmike 12. I’M A PATRIOT All Eddie and Owen Garron had in common is that they share the same deceased dad. At least that’s something to talk about on their road trip, right? The first feature film from Montana’s Dear ol’ Dad Films features a cast and soundtrack ripe with Big Sky talent. Not Rated, but not for the kiddos. Stars Christopher MaGee and Michael Magee. Playing at the Roxy Fri., Dec.2–Sun., Dec. 4. 7 and 9 PM nightly. (See Arts.) INCARNATE To remove a demon from an 11-year-old, this exorcist travels into his subconscious. Too bad something from his past is waiting there for him. Rated PG-13. Stars Aaron Eckhart, David Mazouz and Emjay Anthony. Playing at the Carmike 12. PURSUIT OF SILENCE Tenement halls aren’t the only place that whisper in the sounds of silence. The Big Sky Documentary Film series presents the Montana premiere of this mindful film about our relationship to silence. Thu., Dec. 1 at the Silver Theater.
NOW PLAYING ALIEN If there’s one thing the crew of the Nostromo knows, it’s that in space, no one can hear you scream. Rated R. Stars Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit and John Hurt. Playing Sat., Dec. 3 at the Roxy. ALLIED Dating a coworker is always complicated, especially when your job is to sabotage Nazi interests. Rated R. Stars Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard and Lizzy Kaplan. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. ARRIVAL Alien spacecraft appear all over the world, and a crack team of linguists, mathematicians and soldiers race against the clock to prevent an-
“Aaron, it's your agent. I have a script here that's The Exorcist meets Incep- THE EDGE OF tion meets The Cell. It's produced by the WWE. Hello? Hello?” Incarnate SEVENTEEN This highly praised opens at the Carmike 12.
other Independence Day. Rated PG-13. Stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. BAD SANTA 2 This Santa’s been on the naughty list since the third Lord of the Rings movie came out. Can he keep his life together? Does he want to? Rated R. Stars Billy Bob Thornton, Christina Hendricks and Tony Cox. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex. BEFORE THE FLOOD Directed by the guy who played the non-robot lead in Short Circuit 2, this documentary sends Leonardo DiCaprio around the world to meet with scientists, activists and world leaders to discuss the looming threat of climate change. Not Rated. Playing Mon., Dec. 5 at the Roxy. BLEED FOR THIS After a car accident wrecks a young boxer’s neck, his doctors tell him he’ll never fight again. Based on the true story of world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza. Rated R. Stars Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Katey Sagal. Playing at the Carmike 12. CERTAIN WOMEN Rich with Montana connection, Certain Women is based on the short stories of Helena’s Maile Meloy and stars Missoula’s heavily lauded Lily Gladstone. Rated R. Also stars Michelle Williams and Laura Dern. Playing through Dec. 8 at the Roxy Theater.
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coming-of-age story features a high school junior whose life turns even more awkward when her older brother starts dating her best friend. Rated R. Stars Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson and Woody Harrelson. Playing at the Carmike 12. FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Newt Scamander explores New York’s secret community of witches and wizards 70 years before Harry Potter reads about the adventures in a Hogwarts textbook. Rated PG-13. Stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston and Jon Voight. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex. GREMLINS A boy discovers that his cute new pet has morphed into an ornery demon of mayhem. I swear to God, the same thing happened when I adopted a cat. Rated PG, but one of the reasons we now have the PG-13 rating. Starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates and Montana’s Hoyt Axton. Screening at the Roxy Thu., Dec. 1 at 7 PM. HACKSAW RIDGE Being a pacifist in the army or saving the lives of 75 men. Which do you think was harder for U.S. Army medic Desmond T. Doss? Rated R. Stars Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn and Luke Bracey. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
HOME ALONE Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. Accidentally left at home during a family vacation, a kid defends his home from a pair of incompetent burglars. Rated PG. Stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. Playing Sun., Dec. 4 at the Roxy. A MAN CALLED OVE (EN MAN SOM HETER OVE) Why can’t the new neighbors just leave this grumpy widower alone while he’s trying to kill himself? Rated PG-13. Stars Rolf Lassgård, Zozan Akgün and Bahar Pars. Playing through Dec. 8 at the Roxy. MOANA An adventurous teenager sails out on a daring mission to save her people with a little help from a demi-god. Rated PG. Walt Disney’s computer-animated musical stars the voices of Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Alan Tudyk. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex. MOONLIGHT Set against the backdrop of the War on Drugs, a young man comes to terms with himself, his community and his sexuality. Rated R. Stars Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris and Janelle Monáe. Playing through Dec. 8 at the Roxy. RULES DON’T APPLY Warren Beatty directs an unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her determined driver and the eccentric billionaire who they work for. Rated PG-13. Stars Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich and a whole slew of other people you’ve heard of. Playing at the Carmike 12. TROLLS Those ugly dolls with the colorful hair your brother melted in the microwave are back! Rated PG. Stars the voices of Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick and Ron Funches. Playing at the Carmike 12. . Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Rosemary-roasted chicken legs with sweet potatoes by Gabi Moskowitz Sometimes comfort food means ooey-gooey mac and cheese and sometimes it means a big piece of sumptuous lasagna. Today, it means herb-y, lemony, garlicky chicken legs with melt-in-your-mouth sweet potatoes and silky onions that caramelize right in the pan. And almost zero effort. Serves 2. Ingredients 2 chicken legs, skin intact salt and pepper 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling 3 cloves garlic, chopped leaves from 2 twigs fresh rosemary, chopped 1 lemon, zested and sliced 2 medium sweet potatoes, skin intact, scrubbed and chopped 1 red onion, peeled and quartered Directions Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Liberally season the chicken all over with salt and pepper. Transfer to a large baking dish.
BROKEASS GOURMET In a small bowl, combine the olive oil, garlic, rosemary and lemon zest. Stir to combine. Rub chicken legs all over (including between the flesh and the skin) with oil mixture. Tuck a few slices of lemon between the flesh and the skin and place a few on top of the skin. Place the sweet potatoes and onions in a mixing bowl. Drizzle lightly with olive oil, season with salt and pepper and toss to coat. Arrange in pan, surrounding the chicken legs. Cover the pan tightly with aluminum foil and roast, covered for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake for an additional 15 minutes, or until skin is golden brown. Serve immediately.
BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor-in-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.
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Season Greetings from Asahi Have a great holiday! 406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 It’s the little things we do together. Bernice’s takes these moments to heart. This Christmas when you want “just the right size” gift or party package, think about stopping by Bernice’s having us prepare you a personalized cookie plate, or pick up frosted Christmas trees (Yep! Those famous sugar cookies.) Packaged Bernice’s Hot Cocoa, Mini Macaroons, Gingerbread Coffeecake, and loaves of Poundcake, also make great gifts! Have you checked out Bernice’s wearables lately? Downright smart. Gift Cards? Oh, yeah. Bernice’s wishes you a Merry Little Christmas. xoxo bernice. $-$$
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$
of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 • grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 $-$$$
DECEMBER Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$
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Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart
Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ India Grill & Curry House 400 E. Broadway 926-2021 facebook.com/indiagrillandcurryhouse Experience Missoula’s only authentic Indian restaurant! Try our unique, daily vegetarian or meat combos prepared with house-made curries and spices imported directly from India. Served with rice, naan bread, salad and dessert all served on traditional Thali-style plates. Also try our housemade Chai, Mango Lassi or our special Lemon Juice. New menu items and combos daily! Special orders and catering available. Mon-Sat - Lunch 11am-3pm / Dinner 5pm-9pm. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 36pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
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Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Garden City Beef Ribeye, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
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What you’re drinking: Mighty Mo Brew Co.’s Smoke Jumper scotch ale has been on the Great Falls brewery’s menu since it first opened in December 2013. For the Oak Smoker, Mighty Mo brewers took Smoke Jumper and aged it on toasted oak spirals for three weeks. What it tastes like: The base brew is a malty, full-bodied ale with notes of dark fruit and molasses. The aging process adds oak and vanilla flavors to the already rich beer. If you’re a fan of Kettlehouse’s Cold Smoke, this is right up your ale-y. Who brewed it: Mighty Mo co-owner and head brewer Casey Kingsland made a limited batch of the Oak Smoker Scotch Ale— eight barrels—and distributed it only within 100 miles of Great Falls. Missoula is the ex-
ception to that rule because, you know, we’re so beer-crazy we’re worth the trouble. When you’re drinking it: Any time over the next few weeks until it runs out. Pro tip: Head over to The Dram Shop on Mondays noon–9 p.m. to take advantage of the tap room’s $3 special on non-premium beers, including Oak Smoker. Where to find it: At The Dram Shop Growler Fill Station and Tap Room, 229 E. Front St., next to The Pearl Cafe. —Erika Fredrickson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@ missoulanews.com.
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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TUE | 8 PM | ADAMS CENTER The Doggfather brings his Puff Puff Pass Tour to the Adams Center Tue., Dec. 6 at 8 PM. $35-$55.
THU | 12-8 | 9 PM | REAL LOUNGE Portland's Sapient plays the Real Lounge Thu., Dec 8. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $7/$5 advance.
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WED | 9 PM | MONK’S Kyle Gass Band plays Monk's Wed., Dec. 7. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$10 advance.
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MON | 8 PM | WILMA My Morning Jacket's Jim James plays the Wilma Mon., Dec. 5. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $38.50/$31 advance.
SAT | 10 PM | TOP HAT Austin indie darlings Wild Child play the Top Hat Sat., Dec 3. Doors at 9, show at 10. $15.
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nightlife Climate Smart Missoula celebrates its one-year anniversary with a cakewalk and the Climate Smarty Pants Awards at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Occult author Raven Digitalis signs his new book Esoteric Empathy at Water Lillies. 5 PM–8 PM. 1536 S. Reserve St. The Montana Natural History Center hosts Run Wild Missoula’s “Show Us Your ‘Stache” party and men’s run. Show off your “Movember” mustaches and raise awareness and money for men’s health issues. Proceeds go to Team Up Montana. 5:30 PM. Free. I’d pair the music of John Floridis with a Blown Out Nut Brown Ale. Try for yourself at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM. Free. You spin me right ‘round baby, right ‘round. Tom Catmull, Chris Cunningham and Jenn Adams provide an evening of original music at Songwriters in the Round at the Mary Stuart Rodgers Performing Arts Center in Victor. 7 PM. $15. If 24 hours every year just isn’t enough for you, relive Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story with a stage production at the O’Shaughnessy Center. 7:30 PM. $18. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
Legally Blonde: The Musical continues at the Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20. The Dead Hipster Dance Party at the Badlander is so cool even I don’t know about it. 9 PM. 208 Ryman St. Thievery Corporation’s Congo Sanchez plays a solo show at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10/$7 advance. Jon Wayne and the Pain are off the chain. The Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free. Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM. Show at 10. Free. AC Slater (the DJ and not the subject of my childhood fantasies) comes to Monk’s. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15/$12 advance.
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nightlife VonCommon Art Studios unleashes the Art Blizzard at the Union Hall with a craft fair. 5 PM–8 PM. Hey, river lovers. Get your party on at the Clark Fork Coalition Holiday Party. Music, food, drinks, raffles and more celebrate the festive season. 5 PM–9 PM. Free. Look, I know you love the awesome music of Larry Hirshberg. I also know you enjoy a cold one at Missoula Brewing Co. Luckily for you two great tastes are making one
great evening. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. The Public House welcomes the music of The River City Players. 130 E. Broadway. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. If books are your bag, The Dell Brown room in Turner Hall hosts the first of three Missoula book-release readings. Montana Poet Laureate Michael Earl Craig, Zan Bockes, David Cates, Sally Cobau, Robert Lee and Karin Schalm are all on hand to celebrate the publication of the anthology Poems Across the Big Sky II. 7 PM. Free. Katch Keema and the Keepsakes at Florence’s betterRoot Cider Bar. 7 PM–9 PM. Free. The annual black-box showcase
once again highlights the work of the UM School of Theatre and Dance Program’s season. Dance Up Close provides audiences with a chance to see the original work of emerging and established dance and design artists in an intimate setting. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 student.
Tahj & Sweatshop Sneakers tunnel their way into the Palace. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free.
Legally Blonde: The Musical continues at the Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20.
Locksaw Cartel & The Skurfs kick off December at the VFW. 9 PM. Free.
A Christmas Story: The Musical continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. I triple-dog dare you to go to mctinc.org for tickets and more info. 7:30 PM. The Bop a Dips might not be a legal Scrabble word, but you can see the band at Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.
Drop Culture celebrates three years of dance parties at the Badlander with Mark Myriad, M-AD and DJ COMA. 9 PM. Free.
Reverend Slanky celebrates a decade of funk with a show at the place where it all began. The Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. (See Spotlight.) TGIGF! Gladys Friday plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.
First Friday The Montana Natural History Center welcomes the landscapes of Mary Kelley and Gail Trenfield. 120 Hickory. 3:30 PM–5:30 PM.
Five Valleys Land Trust hosts a First Friday holiday party. 120 Hickory. 5 PM–7 PM. Larry Evans brings his insect writing art to Lake Missoula Tea Co. 136 E. Broadway. 5 PM–8 PM.
Radius Gallery’s annual holiday show exhibits over 100 artists to celebrate art, giving and community. 114 E. Main. 4 PM–7 PM.
Glacier Sotheby’s International Realty hosts the artwork of Jayne Piazza. 321 N. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM.
E3 Gallery invited artists to share their personal expressions on the color white. See the final results at a special exhibit benefiting Camp Mak-A-Dream. 229 W. Main. 4 PM–9 PM.
Bernice’s Bakery hosts the multimedia work of Claire Emery. 190 S. 3rd. 5 PM–7 PM. Barbara Morrison’s work includes paintings, sculpture and dolls. Also cats. See her work at Gallery 709. 709 Ronan. 5 PM–9 PM.
The Loft hosts the work of painter Alissa Durling and photographer Flori Engbrecht. 5 PM–8 PM. 119 West Main. 5 PM–8 PM.
FABRiK’s First Friday features a live photoshoot by Danielle Ford Photography. 215 E Main. 5 PM–8 PM.
Montana Wilderness Association takes you on a photographic tour of the wildlife and landscapes of the Southwest Crown of the Continent. The exhibit highlights the conservation opportunities of the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Project, an effort to restore forests and watersheds. 5 PM–8 PM. 118 W. Broadway. Free.
The Missoula Art Museum hosts an opening night of a new ceramic exhibition, Binary Form: Ceramic Abstraction by Trey Hill and Andrea Moon. 335 N Pattee. 5 PM–8 PM. The Clay Studio offers a variety of exceptional ceramic art. Get your holiday shopping done early with a special First Friday sale. 1106 Hawthorne St. 5:30 PM–9 PM.
Betty’s Divine hosts an opening reception for Andrew McKenna’s paintings. 509 S. Higgins. 5 PM– 8 PM. Kay Langland of Moondance Copper Art and Jewelry displays her upcycled jewelry at Upcycled. 517 S. Higgins 5 PM–8 PM. Sub Pop Records’ art director Jeff Kleinsmith and The Stranger and
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Betty's Divine hosts an opening for artist Andrew McKenna's paintings. 5 PM–8 PM.
The Rocket’s art director Hank Trotter open an exhibit of Rock n Roll posters at Clyde Coffee. 610 S. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM.
The photography of Genevieve Fix and oil paintings of Cody Rene Dickinson lynchpin Meadowsweet Herbs’ First Friday. 180 S. 3rd. 5 PM–8 PM.
Ashley Rickman’s Common Ground: You, Me, and the Others invites the audience to experience specific and cumulative emotions that individuals dealing with nonspecific silent and mental illness face. Real Good Art Space. 1205 Defoe. 7 PM–10 PM.
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Legally Blonde: The Musical continues at the Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20.
Bryan Jan provides the tunes at Missoula Brewing Co. Have a drink and have a listen from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
A Christmas Story: The Musical continues at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. I triple-dog dare you to go to mctinc.org for tickets and more info. 7:30 PM.
Bridger Dunnagan and Alex Koukov play Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
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played a knack for eclectic energetic covers of Al Green and Stevie Wonder standards. Since that first s h o w, R e v e r e n d Slanky's horn-driven funk-and-soul WHAT: Reverend Slanky 10-year has become a staAnniversary Show ple of the Garden City's music scene. WHERE: The Top Hat Adding a plethora of original toe-tapWHEN: Fri., Dec 2. Doors at ping songs to its 9:30 PM, show at 10 retinue, the band HOW MUCH: $5. has played festivals and bar shows Reverend Slanky as well as provided live soundwith a hard-won victory for the tracks to local productions of the the swank music hub, once again University of Montana. But away Rocky Horror Show at the Wilma. hosts the band, exactly 10 years from the big events, a band made Reverend Slanky, which has from when it first played the up of eight UM graduates played changed its lineup over the years, venue. Here's to the next 10 years its first gig on the dilapidated is getting ready to do it all over of funk. stage of the Top Hat. That band again at the place it got its start. —Charley Macorn was Reverend Slanky, and it dis- The Top Hat, now remodeled into
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Billings bands The Budgets and the Bull Market join Raziel, Hermanas y Hermanas and Dirty Jim for a musical celebration of the World Series Champs. 9 PM. 18-plus $8/21-plus $5.
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Sit down for a lovely tea and then tour the Daly Mansion at a special holiday event. 11 AM and 2 PM. $25. Call 406-363-6004 for reservations.
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Why climb a mountain when you can paint one? Learn the skills to draw and paint mountains at Nancy Seiler’s Studio. 1 PM–4 PM. $50 plus materials. RSVP at nancyseiler.com.
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 LUCAS•
Lucas is a 4-year-old tabby lovebug who is looking for a calm, small household. He would love to spend his days on a high shelf snoozing and occasionally sending judgemental stares at his human guardian. However, he does have moments when he expects ALL the attention that he should rightfully have. If you're ready to welcome an independent, but loving gentlemen into your home, please message or call us today!
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AMOS•Amos is a 7-year-old male black cat.
Amos is declawed, so needs to be an indoor only cat. He have lived with small dogs and didn't mind them. Amos loves to find places to hide and burrow in. He is a pretty independent boy and will hide from strangers. He will need time to adjust to new surroundings when he goes home to his forever family.
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BIRDIE• Birdie is a 6-month-old female black and white tuxedo cat. She is a meed and mild young girl. Birdie is still a baby and hasn't developed a great deal of confidence yet. She enjoys other cats and would thrive in a home that can give her more human affection than she's had in the past. Birdie is the perfect balance of young, yet not crazy kitten.
LUKA• Luka is a 1 1/2-year-old male Husky/Shepherd mix. He is an affectionate and playful young boy who loves all people. He does well with dogs and would make a great companion for an active young person. He'd love to be a hiking, camping, walking, biking buddy. Meet his exercise needs, and he'll be the most loving and attentive companion. WILLIE• Willie is a 3-year-old male Pit Bull. He has a loving and nervous energy, making him always want to be near people. Willie spent a week running scared in Missoula dragging his harness and leash before someone was able to catch him and bring in to the shelter. Since then, he has decided he'd very much like to never leave your side. Willie repsonds to several commands when treats are readily available.
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GWYNETH• Gwyneth is a 5-7-year-old female Black Lab. A very social gal, Gwyneth is the epitome of happy. She loves to be part of anything and everything. There isn't one single thing she'd be able to list as her favorite, except maybe life itself. She'd be the perfect addition to any family and will fill your life with love, making everyone she meets smile.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 ROSE• Rose is quite beautiful, and she knows it! She expects to be showered with attention and loves pets and treats! This smart girl enjoys food toys where she can work to get her kibble. She lived with teenagers and another cat, but she may be a little picky about her fellow kitty friends. Come visit her at the shelter or learn more on our website www.myhswm.org.
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ATHENA• Athena is one cool kitten. She loves hunting her toys, she is incredibly brave, and she loves bounding around at lightning speed! In foster care, she seemed unbothered by dogs and was around other cats. Athena can play rough and has an independent streak, so she would do best in an adult family or a family with older children. If Athena sounds like your kind of sassy cat, stop by HSWM today, 5930 Highway 93 South.
MAX• Max is a loveable Blue Heeler/ Amer-
ican Pitbull Terrier mix who LOVES to play fetch. After a long day of playtime he can’t wait to snuggle up to his human. Max is house and crate-trained. His adoption includes a free private lesson with one our trainers. For more information on Max email Jean as behavior@myhswm.org
BABY• Baby is a young German Shepherd cross who came to us with six beautiful babies of her own! Now that her puppies are old enough and have found homes, she is ready to find her forever home where she can get the love, care and attention she so deserves! Baby has spent most of her life outside, but we think with kindness and positive reinforcement training, she will thrive wherever she goes!
HOMER• Homer is a flashy, independent Pomeranian cross who knows what he likes! Those “likes” include leash walks, car rides, and naps in the sun. He has lived with and ignored cats and can coexist with other dogs, as long as they don't mess with his stuff! Homer would prefer to be in an adult-only family where he can do his own thing near his people and be pampered fully like a proper Pomie loves!
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PM Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.
nightlife It’s really about the notes they aren’t playing. Every Sunday Imagine Nation hosts Jazzination. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. John Adam Smith plays Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. What goes together better than beer and laughter? Check out Sunday Funnies Comedy Showcase. First Sunday of every month at Great Burn Brewing. 6:30 PM. Free. Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406273-2297 to sign up. No cover.
Legally Blonde: The Musical continues at the Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
Spend Monday morning exploring the fall foliage around Missoula before relaxing with a hot beverage with Coffee Walks. This week explore Greenough Park. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM–12 PM. $5. Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. 12 PM–8 PM. Anyone affected by epilepsy can come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. 2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707. The Shuffles Dance Studio hosts tap classes for all ages and levels, Mondays through Thursdays from 4-7 PM. 500 N. Higgins Ave. Call 2108792 or drop in to observe a class. $60 for four classes. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at The Base. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
Sharpen your sweet tooth with the 20th annual Chocolate Tasting Party at the Victor Heritage Museum. 4 PM–9 PM. $5.
nightlife Only 83 years late. Montana Distillery celebrates the repeal of Prohibition with a party featuring the music of Wolf & The Moons. 5 PM–8 PM. Prepare a couple songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays. My Morning Jacket’s Jim James plays the Wilma. Meanwhile my
tribute band Tim Tames toils in obscurity. Doors at 7 PM, shows at 8. $38.50/$31 advance. Think you got what it takes? Come to the University Center Atrium for a chance to show your talents with the UC Open Mic. Music, singing, spoken word and more. 7 PM–11 PM. Free. Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30–8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.
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nightlife Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. A portion of every pint sold at Tamarack Brewing Company goes to benefit Free Cycles. 6 PM–9 PM. Do you think I can keep using my calotype paper? Photographer Neil Chaput de Saintonge discusses the changing landscape
of cameras at a free lecture at Rocky Mountain School of Photography. 7 PM. Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more information. Snoop Dogg plays the Adams Center. In other news, meteorologists are expecting to see an unrelated cloud of smoke above Missoula tonight. 8 PM. $35–$55. Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nicholson were two of five uncredited co-directors of which 1963 film? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery
Chipotle gives half of their proceeds today to IMI Montana, an organization that works to find employment for veterans, the elderly and people with disabilities. 11 AM–10 PM. Lil’ Bugs Early Childhood Program is a chance for bug lovers and their parents to learn about insects. Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium. First and third Wednesday of every month, 12:15–1:15 PM. Visit missoulabutterflyhouse.org.
This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. Singer/songwriter Aran Buzzas returns to Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.
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Celebrate Montana’s hoptastic history with Drink a Brew for History at Lolo Peaking Brewing Company. Pub Trivia, beer history and door prizes await. 6 PM–9 PM.
At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, videos and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.
Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.
A portion of every pint sold at Kettlehouse Northside goes to support the conservation work of Hellgate Hunters and Anglers. 5 PM–8 PM.
Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 7 PM.
What are the chances of just having a second summer? Climate expert Nick Silverman speaks about what this winter might look like for Western Montana at the Clark Fork Coaliton. 5:30 PM. Free.
Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway
Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: The Terror. Swing into the holidays with the UM Jazz Bands. The University of Montana Music Building. 7:30 PM. $11/$5 students. Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. This isn’t a tribute, this is the real deal. Tenacious D, cofounder Kyle Gass plays Monk’s. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$10 advance. Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover. Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.
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nightlife Djebe Community Drum and Dance is a class in dance and drum traditions from many countries. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. from 6– 7 PM. $5 donation. Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club meets the second Thursday of each month. Community Room, 6 PM–7:30 PM. Free and open to the public. Like a good major league pitcher, Draught Works Brewery has Basses Covered. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Nashville’s Jason Michael Carroll hits the stage at the Sunrise Saloon. Joined by Melissa Forrette, the show starts at 7 PM. Free. Take a musical trip down Christmas Lane with the Broadway Christmas Wonderland at the Adams Center. 7:30 PM– 10:30 PM. $47.50-$62.50. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The Dead Hipster Dance Party at the Badlander is so cool even I don’t know about it. 9 PM. 208 Ryman St.
Nashville’s Jason Michael Carroll hits the stage at the Sunrise Saloon. Joined by Melissa Forrette. Show starts at 7 PM. Free.
Not to sound judgmental, but Portland’s Sapient plays the Real Lounge. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $7/$5 advance.
Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.
Like the band Dawes is said to capture the Laurel Canyon sound, Iron Eyes capture Missoula’s Northside sound. Check them out at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.
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Agenda Shel Silverstein's 1964 book The Giving Tree is one of the most divisive pieces of children's literature. The tale of an altruistic tree that gives of itself until it’s only a stump has been interpreted as an allegory for Christianity, an indictment of unchecked consumer culture and a thoughtful examination of motherhood. I personally see it as proof that a magictalking-tree-based economy has no place in our modern world. But the idea of giving is one that resonates this time of year. Throughout the month of December, Missoula Aging Services offers a festive way to support our community. Partners across Missoula such as Taco Sano, Subaru of Missoula and the Missoula Public Library have put up “giving trees” decked out with bright tags. Each of these tags notes a suggested donation and what it will provide for a local senior citizen in need. Dona-
tions become hot meals for older adults who can no longer prepare their own food, companionship for those who strive to live independently or a much–needed break for family caregivers. There is no need to give until you are only a stump, but any amount of money could bring change to someone's life. —Charley Macorn Find a complete list of locations of the Missoula Aging Service's Giving Trees at missoulaagingservices.org.
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Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints can interfere with everyday tasks, but those living with arthritis can find support at Summit Independent. The Arthritis Support Group holds meetings every first Thursday of the month, from noon–1 PM.
Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. 12 PM–8 PM.
Missoula Aging Services has set up trees all over Missoula, giving you the opportunity to make a difference in a senior citizen’s life throughout December. Find a full map at missoulaagingservices.org. The Montana Natural History Center hosts Run Wild Missoula’s “Show Us Your ‘Stache” party and men’s run. Show off your “Movember” mustaches and raise awareness and money for men’s health issues. Proceeds go to Team Up Montana. 5:30 PM. Free.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 2 The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more. Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent from 2-4 PM. Call 728-1630. The girls youth group, ARIELS, meets every first Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins, from 3:30-6 PM. Check out summitilc.org.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 3 All proceeds from the 2016 C.S. Potter Middle School Craft Fair go directly back to support the students and teachers of CS Porter. 10 AM–4 PM.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4 Watson Children’s Shelter hosts a Holiday Home Tour at their Buckhouse location. This is a rare opportunity for the community to tour the home while the children are out participating in holiday activities. 11 AM–2 PM. Free.
Former military members are invited to the Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.
TUESDAY DECEMBER 6 The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from 1-2:30PM. A portion of every pint sold at Tamarack Brewing Company go to benefit Free Cycles. 6 PM–9 PM.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 Chipotle gives half of their proceeds today to IMI Montana, an organization that works to find employment for veterans, the elderly and people with disabilities. 11 AM–10 PM. NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness. Join the fun every Wednesday at 2 PM. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week support the Missoula Community Food Co-op. 5 PM–8 PM.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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ne of Missoula's weird little idiosyncrasies is that people here congratulate you for getting rid of your car. In other places I've lived, when I told my neighbors, coworkers or LARP guildmates that I just walk everywhere, I always got a knowing look followed by questions about what my BAC was when I was pulled over. After explaining that I have never had a DUI someone would inevitably ask, “Well then why aren't you driving?” In Missoula, though, the same statement is greeted with approval, hearty handshakes and a little bit of jealousy from folks who've been talking about selling their Subarus for years. And while we are the bike-lane-and-free-bus capital of the state, walking is still my favorite way to traverse our city. The best part about walking isn't always your destination, but
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the journey. Missoula Parks and Recreation hosts weekly Missoula Movers Coffee Walk every Monday where you and a group of like-minded strollers can explore the Garden City and then enjoy a hot drink. This year, coffee walkers have explored Marshall Canyon and Mount Jumbo’s saddle, among other spots. Further coffee walks will take pedestrians to Fort Missoula, the Kim Williams Trail, the Rattlesnake Powerline Trail and beyond. —Charley Macorn The Missoula Movers Coffee Walks take place every Monday from 9 AM to 12 PM. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us for a full schedule. $5 covers transportation and hot drink at a local coffee shop.
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I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my workweek by watching some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.
Spend Monday morning exploring the fall foliage around Missoula before relaxing with a hot beverage with Coffee Walks. This week explore Greenough Park. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.
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A portion of every pint sold at Kettlehouse Northside goes to support the conservation work of Hellgate Hunters and Anglers. 5 PM–8 PM.
You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4 I’ve seen Jurassic Park, so I know how this ends. Five Valleys Audubon explores the Mission Valley in search of raptors. Meet at 7:50 AM in the Adams Center parking lot or at the Cenex station on the south side of Ronan at 9 AM. Bring a lunch and dress warmly. The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
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What are the chances of just having a second summer? Climate expert Nick Silverman speaks about what this winter might look like for Western Montana at the Clark Fork Coalition. 5:30 PM. Free. The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100. How would two people who met in a biking group in Missoula spend their honeymoon? By biking across Tasmania, of course. Spirit of Peace Church hosts a potluck reception for the happy couple’s photo presentation. 6 PM. Free, but bring a dish.
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By Amy Alkon MOTHERSHIP OF FOOLS This will sound crazy, but ... should I tell my girlfriend, the love of my life, that I was abducted by aliens? It happened a long time ago, and I have no proof—just my own recollection. Yes, it could’ve been a dream, but even so, it changed how I see things and opened me up to new possibilities. My girlfriend is a schoolteacher and probably wouldn’t believe me. Whether she’d still stay with me, I don’t know. I want to be completely honest with her. Is that crazy? –UFO-napped Strange how nobody ever manages to shoot video when there’s an alien spaceship in the vicinity—perhaps because they’re too busy recording that guy, two traffic lanes over, who’s picking his nose. Like you, science historian and Skeptic magazine founder Michael Shermer felt like he had a little meet-’n’-greet with some outer space dudes. However, he realized that his supposed abduction was just the effects of “sleep deprivation and physical exhaustion” because he had just cycled 83 straight hours in a bike-athlon. This—mixed with a “distant memory” of a TV episode about aliens taking over the earth—made for what Shermer calls “nothing more than a bizarre hallucination.” Shermer notes that UFOs and alien abductions are “1. unaccepted by most people in astronomy, exobiology” and SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence), “2. extremely unlikely (although not logically impossible), and 3. ... largely based on anecdotal and uncorroborated evidence.” However, Shermer explains, “the human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering”—leading many people to swear that they actually did go on a ride with the little green men. As “evidence,” they’ll tell you they have really vivid “memories”—of, say, the aliens bickering: “Just put him in the trunk of your flying saucer. Nah, got all my intergalactic soccer gear in there. You take him!” But such “memories” are probably due to what memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues call “imagination inflation.” This describes how repeatedly imagining an experience can, over time, lead us to forget that the particular event— “heyyy, how ’bout them aliens!”—came out of our imagination or a dream. We can start to believe it really happened. For example, Loftus and her colleagues told research participants that a dream they’d revealed to the researchers probably meant that they’d had an upset-
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ting experience before the age of 3, “like being bullied by an older child.” The participants insisted that they didn’t recall anything like that. Yet, about two weeks later, many reported experiencing the bullying they were simply told about—even offering details on how they were supposedly oppressed by some other 3-year-old. This makes sense, considering cognitive psychologist Robert Bjork’s finding that “using one’s memory shapes memory”— meaning that the more we recall something the bigger and stronger it grows in our memory. Also, in recalling some event—for ourselves or others—we have a tendency to “decorate,” adding details that can easily get merged into the particular “memory.” We quickly forget that we just threw them in to, oh, put on a good show at the alien abductee party because we were feeling all “my tinfoil hat is so last season.” Also consider “cognitive dissonance”— the discomfort from simultaneously holding two opposing beliefs, like thinking that your worldview was transformed by UFOs while also thinking that it’s stupid to believe in UFOs. We tend to smooth out the clash by going with whichever belief works best for our ego. So, in your case, to continue believing that you’re intelligent and also not cockadoody in the head, you tell yourself that your memory of your special vacay with the 00100010111 family has to be real. As for what to tell your girlfriend, what counts is that you had these insights—not the sense that a space alien opened your skull up with some high-tech can opener and dumped them in. If you mention the alien thing at all, explain it in light of the science on how our memory likes to dabble in fiction writing. While you’re at it, give yourself credit for your insights. It may help to understand our brain’s “default mode” processing. Our mind doesn’t just turn off when we take a break from directed, focused thinking (like reading, studying or pondering something). Wider neural networks take over and do subconscious background processing— gnawing on ideas and problems we’ve been working on. This can make insights seem like they came out of nowhere. But chances are, yours are a product of your mind and your real-life experience—an explanation that, sadly, lacks the panache of claiming the space dudes were going to use the anal probe on you but weren’t sure whether you could afford the co-pay.
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tion. Proficiency in MS Word, Excel & Outlook. Medical receptionist experience preferred but not necessary. M-F $12.50$15.00/DOE Equal Opportunity Employer. Apply online at www.lcstaffing.com. Job ID# 28820 HR/Administrative Assistant Immediate need for a temporary HR Assistant to support the Director in a large local company for 5-10 months. Provide administrative and technical support, create and maintain personnel records, enter employee information into the system and provide customer service to employees. Experience in Payroll, Benefits and Recruitment required. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. M-F $12.00 – $15.00/DOE. Apply online at www.lcstaffing.com. Full job listing at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28767 Laundry Worker Laundry production in busy commercial laundry. Various duties can include sorting soiled and clean laundry, filling washers and dryers. This is a fast paced and physically demanding job. Employee will be bending, stooping, kneeling and lifting continuously throughout the day. Lifting requirements: 50-75lbs. $10/hr. Full time, long term. Generous benefits after successful completion of probationary period. Apply online at www.lcstaffing.com. Job ID# 28804 NEED A JOB? Let NELSON PERSONNEL help in your job search! Fill out an application and schedule an interview. Call Us at 543-6033 Nelson Personnel is in search for CONSTRUCTION/CONCRETE workers $13/HR. Must have construction experience, reliable transportation, and clean record. Call 5436033 NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill PRODUCTION SUPPORT,
JANITORIAL, & WAREHOUSE positions for a manufacturing company. $11/hr – Full-Time. Call Us at 543-6033 PARAEDUCATORS - MCPS Missoula County Public School District is recruiting for Para Educators at various school sites for various positions. For job description, and detailed instructions for applying visit www.mcpsmt.org and click on “Employment”. *Positions will serve students with special education needs in academics, behavior, and self help skills. ~Equal Opportunity Employer ~ Production Support Reputable company 8 miles from Missoula is looking to add you to their safety-conscious, teamplaying environment. Entails ensuring quality and on time delivery of prefinished siding, loading of automated machines, painting and packaging for shipment. Cross-train on multiple pieces of equipment and processes. Be flexible. Exposure to conditions including moving mechanical equipment and exposure to fumes, heat, cold, and irritants. PT and FT positions available Wage $11.00 Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28647 Sewing Machine Operator Well-established Missoula manufacturing company is seeking two employees to sew pool accessory products. Must be able to lift 75 pounds and be comfortable handling heavy materials. Experience preferred but willing to train. 2 shifts available: Monday-Friday 6am-4:30pm Monday-Friday 4:30pm to 3:00am. $11.00-12.50 per hour DOE Generous benefits package if probationary period completed. Apply online and view other opportunities at www.lcstaffing.com. Full job listing at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28786
PAID HEALTHCARE PATIENT ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT The successful applicant must possess five years’ experience with the RPMS computer system, FI computer system, fax machine and scanning. Some College coursework in Health Services, Public Health, Business Administration, Human Resources, or other relevant field preferred. Training and or on the job experience related to medical coding and medical procedures preferred. Experience in implementing CHS/ program policies and procedures. Demonstrated successful experience in reading, interpreting program guidance, contracts, and regulations and implementing those regulations at the local level. Ability to successfully pass civil and criminal background check for persons working with children and vulnerable adults. Ability to communicate with vendors and patients in a compassionate understanding manner. Professional communication skills and a valid current State of Montana driver’s license. All applicants must submit a Tribal application and copy of academic transcript/training certificate, proof of enrollment in a federally recognized Tribe if other than CSKT and if claiming veteran’s preference, a copy of DD214 must be submitted. The successful applicant, if not already employed by the Tribes must pass a prehire drug test and serve a mandatory six (6) months probationary period. Salary is $14.06 to $16.33. To apply, contact Personnel at (406) 675-2700 Ext. #1029. Tribal applications are also available online at cskt.org. Closing date will be Thursday, December 8th, 2016 at 5:30 p.m.
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Human Resource Manager Missoula manufacturing company seeks a Human Resource Manager. Will oversee all the functions of the HR Department, including talent identification, placement & development, performance management, compensation & benefits & employee relations. Responsible for compliance with our Code of Ethics & creating a safe workplace. Must be dependable & looking for long-term employment. Proven knowledge of laws affecting human resources administration. Bachelor’s Degree in Business, HR Management or related field, or a combination of 3-5 years of experience. Strong relationshipbuilding skills, project management, organizational & leadership skills are essential. Must be able to interact with all levels of employees. Excellent verbal & written communication skills required. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office. PHR Certification or SHRM-CP preferred but not required. $16-$18.00/hour, DOE. M-TH 6:30am-5:30pm. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28626
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Lumber Grader Lumber Company seeking a Temp-to-Hire Grader Operator. Will turn boards ranging from 6 - 20’ in length, 4 - 15” in width, and up to 2” thick, often turning 5000 to 10000 and must be able to grade to within 5% average. Must be able to stand 8 hours a day, lift up to 50#’s repetitively, twist, turn and set up a grade stamper and lug loader. Light computer work required. Will have proven work history, reliability, excellent work ethics and be team oriented. Upon completion of 500 hours as a Temp-to-Hire, the company offers a benefit package of: Medical Insurance, 401K, profit sharing, paid time off and more! Pre-employment screening required. $14.00-$18.00 DOE. Apply on-
VETERANS HEALTHCARE ADVOCATE TRIBAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT The successful applicant must possess a 2 year degree in Social Work, Human Services or Sociology with 3 years’ experience -OR- 5 years’ experience in Insurance (i.e. Sales, Claims Adjuster or Agent) -OR- a 4 year degree in Business or Social Work. Must become a Certified Application Counselor within 30 days of hire or placement in the position and possess a valid Montana State Driver’s license. All applicants must submit a Tribal application and copy of academic transcript/training certificate, proof of enrollment in a federally recognized Tribe if other than CSKT and if claiming veteran’s preference, a copy of DD214 must be submitted. The successful applicant, if not already employed by the Tribes must pass a pre-hire drug test and serve a mandatory six (6) months probationary period. Salary is $14.06 to $16.33. To apply, contact Personnel at (406) 675-2700 Ext. #1029. Tribal applications are also available online at cskt.org. Closing date will be Thursday, December 8th, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. CSKT IS A TRIBAL MEMBER PREFERENCE EMPLOYER
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow,” wrote naturalist Henry David Thoreau in Walden, “to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.” I’d love to see you summon that level of commitment to your important rendezvous in the coming weeks, Aries. Please keep in mind, though, that your “most important rendezvous” are more likely to be with wild things, unruly wisdom or primal breakthroughs than with pillars of stability, committee meetings and business-as-usual. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For you Tauruses, December is “I Accept and Love and Celebrate Myself Exactly How I Am Right Now” Month. To galvanize yourself, play around with this declaration by Oscar-winning Taurus actress Audrey Hepburn: “I’m a long way from the human being I’d like to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.” Here are other thoughts to draw on during the festivities: 1. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone.” - Barbara De Angelis. 2. “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” - E. E. Cummings. 3. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” - Sandra Bierig. 4. “We cannot change anything until we accept it.” - Carl Jung. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are your collaborative projects (including the romantic kind) evolving at a slower pace than you expected? Have they not grown as deep and strong as you’ve wished they would? If so, I hope you’re perturbed about it. Maybe that will motivate you to stop tolerating the stagnation. Here’s my recommendation: Don’t adopt a more serious and intense attitude. Instead, get loose and frisky. Inject a dose of blithe spirits into your togetherness, maybe even some high jinks and rowdy experimentation. The cosmos has authorized you to initiate ingenious surprises.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): I don’t recommend that you buy a cat-o’-nine-tails and whip yourself in a misguided effort to exorcize your demons. The truth is, those insidious troublemakers exult when you abuse yourself. They draw perverse sustenance from it. In fact, their strategy is to fool you into treating yourself badly. So, no. If you hope to drive away the saboteurs huddled in the sacred temple of your psyche, your best bet is to shower yourself with tender care, even luxurious blessings. The pests won’t like that, and—if you commit to this crusade for an extended time—they will eventually flee.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez loved yellow roses. He often had a fresh bloom on his writing desk as he worked, placed there every morning by his wife Mercedes Barcha. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to consider initiating a comparable ritual. Is there a touch of beauty you would like to inspire you on a regular basis? It there a poetic gesture you could faithfully perform for a person you love?
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “For a year I watched as something entered and then left my body,” testified Jane Hirshfield in her poem “The Envoy.” What was that mysterious something? Terror or happiness? She didn’t know. Nor could she decipher “how it came in” or “how it went out.” It hovered “where words could not reach it. It slept where light could not go.” Her experience led her to conclude that “There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.” I bring this meditation to your attention, Virgo, because I suspect you are about to tune in to a mysterious opening. But unlike Hirshfield, I think you’ll figure out what it is. And then you will respond to it with verve and intelligence.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A reporter at the magazine Vanity Fair asked David Bowie, “What do you consider your greatest achievement?” Bowie didn’t name any of his albums, videos or performances. Rather, he answered, “Discovering morning.” I suspect that you Libras will attract and generate marvels if you experiment with accomplishments like that in the coming weeks. So yes, try to discover or rediscover morning. Delve into the thrills of beginnings. Magnify your appreciation for natural wonders that you usually take for granted. Be seduced by sources that emanate light and heat. Gravitate toward what’s fresh, blossoming, just-in-its-early-stages.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to traditional astrology, you Scorpios are not prone to optimism. You’re more often portrayed as connoisseurs of smoldering enigmas and shadowy intrigue and deep questions. But one of the most creative and successful Scorpios of the 20th century did not completely fit this description. French artist Claude Monet was renowned for his delightful paintings of sensuous outdoor landscapes. “Every day I discover even more beautiful things,” he testified. “It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all. My head is bursting.” Monet is your patron saint in the coming weeks. You will have more potential to see as he did than you’ve had in a long time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A journalist dared composer John Cage to “summarize himself in a nutshell.” Cage said, “Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.” He might have added, “Avoid the nutshells that anyone tries to put you in.” This is always fun work to attend to, of course, but I especially recommend it to you Sagittarians right now. You’re in the time of year that’s close to the moment when you first barged out of your mom’s womb, where you had been housed for months. The coming weeks will be an excellent phase to attempt a similar if somewhat less extravagant trick.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hundreds of years ago, the Catholic Church’s observance of Lent imposed a heavy burden. During this six-week period, extending from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, believers were expected to cleanse their sins through acts of self-denial. For example, they weren’t supposed to eat meat on Fridays. Their menus could include fish, however. And this loophole was expanded even further in the 17th century when the Church redefined beavers as being fish. (They swim well, after all.) I’m in favor of you contemplating a new loophole in regard to your own self-limiting behaviors, Capricorn. Is there a taboo you observe that no longer makes perfect sense? Out of habit, do you deny yourself a pleasure or indulgence that might actually be good for you? Wriggle free of the constraints.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The Pacific Ocean was overflowing the borders of the map,” wrote Pablo Neruda in his poem “The Sea.” “There was no place to put it,” he continued. “It was so large, wild and blue that it didn’t fit anywhere. That’s why it was left in front of my window.” This passage is a lyrical approximation of what your life could be like in 2017. In other words, lavish, elemental, expansive experiences will be steadily available to you. Adventures that may have seemed impossibly big and unwieldy in the past will be just the right size. And it all begins soon.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I have a deep fear of being too much,” writes poet Michelle K. “That one day I will find my someone, and they will realize that I am a hurricane. That they will step back and be intimidated by my muchness.” Given the recent astrological omens, Pisces, I wouldn’t be shocked if you’ve been having similar feelings. But now here’s the good news: Given the astrological omens of the next nine months, I suspect the odds will be higher than usual that you’ll encounter brave souls who’ll be able to handle your muchness. They may or may not be soulmates or your one-and-only. I suggest you welcome them as they are, with all of their muchness.
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OF THE ESTATE OF ANDREW C. DEPUYDT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to LINDSAY THERESE DEPUYDT, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of November, 2016. /s/ Lindsay Therese DePuydt, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP16-207 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MEDORA TOWE, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CLIFFORD C. TOWE, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 26th day of October, 2016. /s/ Clifford C. Towe, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H.
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 1 CAUSE NO. DR-16-806 SUMMONS, TEMPORARY ECONOMIC RESTRAINING ORDER AND ORDER TO ATTEND MANDATORY PARENTING PLAN ORIENTATION BY CLERK OF COURT IN RE THE PARENTING OF: B.H, A Minor Child. JENNIFER A. TAWATER, Petitioner, and ANDREW W.K. HAWKER, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: YOU, THE RESPONDENT, ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the above named Court, a copy of which is served upon you with this Summons, and to file your answer and serve a copy of your answer upon the Petitioner within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition. Pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. §40-4121 (3), the Petitioner and Respondent are hereby restrained from transferring, encumbering, pawning, pledging, hiding, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether jointly or separately held, without either the consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life. Each party must notify the other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least 5 business days before incurring the expenditures and must account to the Court for all extraordinary expenditures made after service of this summons. This restraining order does not prevent either party from using any property to pay reasonable attorney fees in order to retain counsel in this proceeding. Petitioner and Respondent are further restrained from cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing
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PUBLIC NOTICES Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-16-196 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: THEOBALT FLECK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Richard Fleck has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representa-
tive, return receipt requested, at 310 W. Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 9th day of November, 2016. /s/ Richard Fleck, Personal Representative /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative of the Estate of Theobalt Fleck MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-16-896 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION WILLIAM B. GILBERT and ASHLIE B. GILBERT, Plaintiffs, v. EMMET GILBERT, A/K/A EMMET GILVERT, THE ESTATE
MNA OF EMMET GILBERT, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE
ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the abovenamed Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title the following-
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PUBLIC NOTICES described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: A piece or parcel of land comprising onethird of an acre in area upon which is located a certain log house which straddles the boundary line between the Northeast Quarter and the Northwest Quarter of Section 20, in Township 15 North, Range 22 West, Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on said boundary line 30’ North of said house, running thence East 60’ to a point, thence South on a line parallel to said boundary line 242 feet to a point, thence West 60’ feet to a point on said boundary line; thence North along said boundary line 242 feet to the place of beginning. Dated this 4th day of November, 2016. /s/ Karen S. Townsend, District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Leslie Halligan Cause No.: DP-16-215 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: SHIRLEY J. MARKS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ronald E. Marks, has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Ronald E. Marks, Personal Representative, return receipt re-
quested, c/o, Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 31 day of October 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 31 day of October 2016. /s/ Ronald E. Marks, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Cause No.: DP-16-221 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: JULIE ANN HACKER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Glenn A. Hacker, Jr., has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Glenn A. Hacker, Jr., Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 3 day of November, 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By:
MNAXLP /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 3 day of November, 2016. /s/ Glenn A. Hacker, Jr., Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-16-147 DEPT. NO. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CONSTANCE JOSEPHINE LUEDTKE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kayleen Briceland has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims may be mailed to Howard Toole, the attorney for Michael John Felde, return receipt requested, at the address of PO Box 8774, Missoula, Montana 59807-8774, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 21st day of November, 2016. HOWARD TOOLE LAW OFFICES, PO Box 8774, Missoula, MT 59807 /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-16-209 DEPT.
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NO. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN FREDRICK FELDE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Michael John Felde has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims may be mailed to Howard Toole, the attorney for Michael John Felde, return receipt requested, at the address of PO Box 8774, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 21st day of November, 2016. HOWARD TOOLE LAW OFFICES, PO Box 8774, Missoula, MT 59807 /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP-16-226 Dept. #4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CAROL JEAN EVERLY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Patrick R. McVeigh has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will
be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Amrine Law, PLLC, P.O. Box 8776, Missoula, MT 59807, the attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 18th day of November, 2016. /s/ Patrick R. McVeigh, Personal Representative of the Estate of Carol J. Everly /s/ W. Brett Amrine, Attorney for Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/08/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201005013 B: 856 P: 1097, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Roger L Morris, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 45 of Lakewood Estates Phase 2B, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the
Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 4, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $186,149.94. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $180,422.79, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Prop-
erty to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in
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property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 2250/Shane Small/$359/Scooter 3336/Ronaldo Henderson/$323/tv 3375/Lisa Sulpha/$287/books 4128/Reginal Davis/$601/furniture 6252/Kipp Schara/$541/washer&dryer 132/Anna Bruckmeier/$591/misc SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, Dec 14, 2016 @ 4:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”. Cash or certified funds.
will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): OS51. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 12/19/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 12/19/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final
PUBLIC NOTICES the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwest trustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Morris, Roger L.(TS# 7023.117166) 1002.288951-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/10/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201202725 B: 889 P: 802 and rerecorded on 2/16/12 under Instrument No. 201203032 B: 889 P: 1109, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Robert Hopkins, an unmarried man was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Plaza Home Mortgage, Inc, successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Title Services Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit D in Building 1915 as shown and defined in the Declaration of Condominium for Orchard Village Condominiums, a residential Condominium, together with its exhibits as recorded September 14, 2005 in Book 760 Micro Records, Page 418 and recorded as Condo 000095, records of Missoula County, Montana, located in a parcel of
ground located in and being a portion of Northeast one-quarter (NE 1/4) of Section 20, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana and being more particularly described as follows: Lots 1A, 2A, 3 through 9, 10A, 11A, 12 through 18, 19A and 20A, Block 16, and Lots 1A, 2 through 5, 6A, 7A, 14A, 15A, 16 through 19 and 20A, Block 17, Orchard Village, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana. Together with an undivided 1.3% ownership in the general common elements and right of use of the limited common elements appurtenant to said Unit D in Building 1915 as said general common elements and limited common elements are defined in the Declaration of Condominium and Condo 000095 as referenced above. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201609576 B: 962 P: 1004, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 5, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $113,338.93. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $109,744.62, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceed-
MNAXLP ings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed a t w w w. n o r t h w e s t trustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Hopkins, Robert (TS# 7023. 116930) 1002.288953-File No.
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 28, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 31 OF STILLWATER ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE I, A
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PUBLIC NOTICES PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. DONALD R FOREMAN and MARKAY FOREMAN, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for Affiliated Financial Group, Inc., its successors and/or assigns., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 27, 2007, and recorded on July 3, 2007 as Book 800 Page 1213 Document No. 200717008. The beneficial interest is currently held by WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, doing business as CHRISTIANA TRUST, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee for BCAT 2014-9TT. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning May 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 19, 2016 is $202,602.47 principal, interest totaling $42,334.49 and other fees and expenses advanced of $22,219.61, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and
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fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the
MNAXLP beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INF O R M A T I O N OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 21, 2016_/s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 21st day of October, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 Shellpoint Mortgage Serving vs FOREMAN 100666-1
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 10, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 4-A of Certificate of Survey No. 1692, located in the Northeast quarter (NE1/4) of Section 21, Township 19 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. DANIEL J MARTIN and M Katherine STILLWELLMARTIN, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for AHM Mortgage, is successors and/or assigns., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on March 9, 2006, and recorded on March 10, 2006 as Book 770 Page 434 Document No. 200605440. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank NA as trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2006-5. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning June 1, 2014, and
each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 26, 2016 is $165,427.80 principal, interest totaling $11,808.37, escrow advances of $6,023.96, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,544.97, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limi-
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PUBLIC NOTICES tation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 26 2016 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 26 day of October 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 6-9-2021 Select Portfolio Servicing Inc. vs DANIEL J MARTINMKatherine STILLWELLMARTIN 100206 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 15, 2017,
at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 342 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Kagan M. Yochim and Traci L Yochim, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to (“MERS”) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for First National Bank of Montana., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on April 20, 2007, and recorded on April 25, 2007 as Book 795 Page 1612 Document No. 200709917. The beneficial interest is currently held by DITECH FINANCIAL LLC F/K/A GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning March 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 12, 2016 is $243,215.39 principal, interest totaling $2,469.11 late charges in the amount of $339.45, escrow advances of $2,642.66, and other fees and expenses advanced of $152.78, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes
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are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 21, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant
Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 21st day of October, 2016 , before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 Ditech Financial LLC vs KAGAN YOCHIMTraci L Yochim 102304 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 9, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE W½ OF THE S½ OF LOT 2 IN BLOCK D OF GLENWOOD PARK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. EXCEPTING THE SOUTH 30 FEET CONVEYED TO MISSOULA COUNTY BY DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 103 OF DEEDS AT PAGE 354. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 589 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1357 LOT 2D OF GLENWOOD PARK ADDITION BLOCK D, SUPPLEMENTAL PLAT NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF JOSEPH E BAUCH and ANNE M KAZMIERCZAK, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage
Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on July 30, 2004, and recorded on August 2, 2004 as Book 737 Page 323 Document No. 200421889. The beneficial interest is currently held by West Coast Servicing, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning July 15, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 19, 2016 is $43,014.62 principal, interest totaling $6,132.88 late charges in the amount of $1,068.19, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title,
express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation
at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 1st, 2016 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 1st day of November, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 FCI NATIONAL LENDER SERVICES vs BAUCH 102122-1
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cation for your Food/Beverage/Bistro business. MLS #21611393 Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com
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1520 Big Flat Road. Wonderful 3 bed, 2 bath on 5.57 fenced acres with orchard and great northern views. $550,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
DUPLEXES
LAND FOR SALE
3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. $795,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-
Martin’s Clean All. Successful power washing business includes truck & equipment. $80,000. Pat McCormick, Properties. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com
1545 South 8th West. Cute 2 bed, 1 bath with unfinished basement, hardwood floors, fenced yard & single garage. $212,500. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, River Road home. $304,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $525,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
DUPLEX - UNIVERSITY AREA LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Duplex 8 blocks from campus! The upper unit has three bedrooms and one bathroom. The lower unit, accessed by a separate entrance, has two bedrooms and one bathroom. Other features include a fenced back yard, large garden area and a storage building that could easily be converted back into a garage. There is plenty of off-street parking in the alley. So many options for this property! Live in one unit and rent out the other, rent both or convert back into a single family home in one of the most coveted locations in Missoula! For more information or to schedule a showing, please contact your real estate agent or Megan Twohig at (406)3702895
MANUFACTURED For Sale 2- 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $35,000 de-
18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
1520 Big Flat Road $550,000
4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tu n g s t e n h o l d i n g s . c o m . (406)293-3714 South Frontage East, Alberton. 37 acres with multiple building sites. $49,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
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Wonderful one owner, 3 bed, 2 bath Big Flat home on 5.57 acres. Large open living room, fireplace, a large country kitchen with formal dining room. Large trex deck looking North towards Snowbowl and Rattlesnake mountains. The breezeway off the laundry room attaches to the double garage. Don't miss the large detached shop on the back of the property. There is an orchard, with fruit trees,a circular driveway, and underground sprinklers. The property is fenced and cross fenced, with the shop situated on the back of the property. Don't miss the 2 bonus rooms upstairs, where one has been a craft room, the other is an open room, with vaulted ceilings. This home has a lot of natural light, and is a must see. MLS #21611915
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The Uptown Flats #303. 1 bed, 1 bath with all the amenities. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Por-
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1201 South 6th Street, Missoula Modern Condo Unit #204
$259,900 • MLS # 20157047
2 Bedroom 3 Bathroom Unit, 1,496 sq ft. The Factory Condos Complex is possibly the ''Greenest'' Building in Missoula. High Efficiency Lighting and Energy Efficient Gas Boiler with H2O Baseboard Heat. Unit consists of 2 levels with 10 Foot Ceilings on Main Floor and 9 Foot Ceilings on the upper floor. Bamboo Floors throughout the Main Floor Highlight the Open Kitchen which has Butcher-Block Counter Tops. Fresh Interior, Brand New Appliances with Natural Gas Range. Living Area has a New Gas Fireplace Master Bath with Tiled Floors and Counter Tops.
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REAL ESTATE
OUT OF TOWN 14.9 acre building lot in Frenchtown. Borders public lands. $180,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $312,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit
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Homes
4677 Adalaide Lane This might be the sweetest house on the market right now-a perfect example of comfortable, efficient living................................................................................................................................................................$146,000 5614 Gharrett St. Expansive 4 bedroom,3 bath home overlooking the South end of Missoula Valley .......................$329,900
Townhomes/Condos
The Uptown Flats #105 First Floor Unit With Extra Large Exterior Patio ...................................................................$161,900 Uptown Flats #303 Third Floor South Facing 1 Bed 1 Bath .......................................................................................$159,710 The Uptown Flats #214 NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY AT THE UPTOWN FLATS! 2 Bed 1 Bath .................................$174,900
Land
215 Spring Street, Hot Springs Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gardens...........................................................................................................................................................$145,000
For Lease
255 South Russell St- LEASE SPACE IN THE SOURCE HEALTH CLUB. ......Modified gross lease of $21 sqf/year/$2,660/month
Featured: 4677 Adalaide Lane This might be the sweetest house on the market right now-a perfect example of comfortable, efficient living $146,000
412 W Artemos Truly amazing Mid-Century Modern home in Pattee Canyon. This home has been well cared for since it was first built in 1952. $417,000
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Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Don’t miss this
3811 STEPHENS #26 ALL ON ONE LEVEL condo in convenient central location. Master bedroom has full bath and walk-in closet. Kitchen is equipped with newer stainless steel appliances. Single garage. $140,000
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $425,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Hospitality Lease Space Available in “The Source” Health Club at 255 S Russell St is a super location for your Food/Beverage/Bistro business
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1545 South 8th West • $212,500 Super cute 2 bed, 1 bath with unfinished basement, hardwood floors, tiled bath, in-floor radiant heat & single garage.
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